Even the Nurses are Praying

To the nurses who gathered in the prayer room as my mom received her life-saving liver transplant and are now risking their lives to save those of others.

Oh,

How one person’s pain can be so powerful.

How tears can heal.

How the heart can open up to pray for a stranger

To get a new piece of themselves,

For are we not all damaged

And just want there to be a bit less rubble,

A little less crumble for somebody even if not us?

How we want to see one battle won because we’ve seen so many lost.

How we know forfeit is loss and therefore

We will not.