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Heir of Grief

January 12, 2022
By BCosKnow221 PLATINUM, Orlando, Florida
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I am the Heir of Grief. 

Grief is all I inherit from my parents;

not my fate, my hair, my body,

Grief, and all it entails.

I live, and am immediately consumed in the mourning of it all.

I survive, faced with a constant reminder,

even from such a young age:

Everything I know can constantly, instantly, be ripped away, painfully, in sickness and in health. 

I grow, and at every turn I lose someone, something, 

The Heir of Grief stepping into the role, only to lose that too,

Because Grief is all I have become. 

© Allison S., Eau Claire, WI

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