Evelyn casey

EVELYN CASEY is a native of Limerick.

She is a fitness and health consultant working at the Limerick University Sports Arena.
She is one of six poets featured in Sextet (Revival, 2010).
She is also published in Limerick 12 12 12 art/poetrycollection by Anne-Marie Burke.
In 2009, Evelyn had a prize-winning poem in the Desmond O'Grady International Poetry Festival.

 
POEM
 

THIS PHOTOGRAPH I HAVE OF YOU
(FOR MY MOTHER)

I gaze deep into your eyes

and try to see,

what kind of life you thought it would be.

Your beauty shines from deep within

and penetrates my being.

Your smile tells no sorrow

your pain allows no tomorrow

your fear haunts your soul

your love endless, and complete.

My Mother with your special charm;

My Mother with your heart so warm;

Your beauty, born to care and share

your love and patience.

I try to feel what you went through

sense your despair.

I hold your image and whisper ‘ Do you hear.’

No one can surmise

my depth of loss, without you,

when I gaze into those soft grey eyes,

in this photograph I have, of you.