Terra Cotta

Silent in your vigil
Patient in your duty
Day after day
year upon year
The dust of centuries settles over your watch

One, ten, twenty
Faithfully, you watch
faithfully you stand
Stone aftre stone
Wind and rain
Cover you in the clay of forgotten past

Still,
your face is resolute
Still,
You armor protects
Still,
Your arms await action

Like an army of Lazarus
Arise!
Awakened to a foreign land and time
A blue sky and vapor trails
Strange tongues and a smell of gasoline
Reborn,
Piece by piece
Silent in your vigil
Patient in your duty
day after day
year upon year
The walls of a new era arch over your watch