Eimear O' Mahony

With Eimear O' Mahony's father Jerry and her uncle John i was in Millstreet Primary School Far north of where i now live in Illowa near the City of Warrnambool I remember well when their mother Mrs O Mahony from life passed away Our teacher said to us for her soul kneel and pray She had died as a young mother Denny O Mahony's wife And for her husband and young children a huge cross in life And though as children we knew the O Mahony family of fate had received a cruel blow Of the depth of their loss we were too young to know Their marvelous late aunt to young adults the seven O Mahony children did raise And for her sacrifice for them she is well worthy of praise More than fifty years in time have gone by since then And the children at that time now aging women and men Like her grandmother Eimear O Mahony at a young age has died Suppose to live to a good age one needs luck on their side For Jerry and Anne Marie and the O Mahony family and Eimear's soulmate the grief of loss must be hard to bear Though time can be a healer of which we are aware Such sad tidings does carry me way back in time To when i was a young boy years before my life's prime When Mrs O Mahony of Inchileigh at a young age breathed her last The present in memory can be linked to the past.