nurse's daughter

to all the nurses

those who bore us and those who didn't

to all the nurses

those who know more than doctors and those who don't

to all the nurses, 

those who day shift and those who night

nurses are to doctors what law clerks are to lawyers

they make the professional fly and take less credit

in the name of my mother, a nurse indeed

i say thank you to all 

the nurses on earth.

J.M.

Toronto, 2020