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.