Vigil
by Marina Lee Sable

I will keep vigil at your cairn
all through the hollow blackness.
I will become a wraith, a sliver
of mirror glass that melts to mist,
a will-o'-the-wisp to light the way
to find you.

Marina Lee Sable's poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in ChiZine, Scheherezade's Bequest, Star*Line, Tales of the Talisman, Unspoken Water, Linger Fiction, Bull Spec, Sounds of the Night, parABnormal Digest, Bête Noire, and other magazines.