Grief by Miriam Colleran (Ireland, 52)

​She was anticipating it - grief,
She remembered the last time,
the searing suffering,
and expected the same, again;
inside she knew
that their time together was almost done.
But no, no,
She was wrong, very wrong,
grief changes and is new every time;
it was different,
but still distressing,
the sadness was more heartrending, more harrowing,
Now    ….     this time     ….     ​she grieved them both.

Miriam Colleran lives in Kildare in Ireland with her two daughters and their two doggies. She is a doctor working in hospice and palliative medicine, plays the Irish harp and is learning about poetry.