Only one kind of nursing for her
Neonatal ICU
Her heart pounded compassion
For the newly born unfinished ones
Her own large Irish family
Seven children, sixteen grandchildren
And now
Two new twin granddaughters
Pat sighed deeply
A heaviness to her downward stare
A glistening coated her eyes
Beautiful identical twins
Kara and Karen
But Kara's cord
Had strangled her
She would never be like her sister
From the abyss of absolute darkness
She released
A silent scream
Impotent to heal
Her loved one
And I knew
Kara had become
Her only child