Have you looked

	into that face?
	That face

looks into you.

	She knows

her torch,
a burden,

	but keeps

her vigil,
loyal

	despite

your habits,
your forgetting.

Your turn
will come.

	Her prayer

will be
your lungs.

First published on www.matthewsrosin.com, Facebook, and Twitter, July 4, 2018.