A Mother’s Love is a Blessing
A Mother’s Love Is A Blessing
(Thomas P Keenan)
An Irish boy was leaving
Leaving his native home
Crossing the broad Atlantic
Once more he wished to roam
And as he was leaving his mother
Who was standing on the quay
She threw her arms around his waist
And this to him did say
A mother’s love’s a blessing
No matter where you roam
Keep her while she’s living
You’ll miss her when she’s gone
Love her as in childhood
Though feeble, old and grey
For you’ll never miss a mother’s love
Till she’s buried beneath the clay
And as the years go onwards
I’ll settle down in life
And choose a nice young colleen
And take her for my wife
And as the babes grow older
And climb around my knee
I’ll teach them the very same lesson
That my mother taught to me
A mother’s love’s a blessing
No matter where you roam
Keep her while she’s living
You’ll miss her when she’s gone
Love her as in childhood
Though feeble, old and grey
For you’ll never miss a mother’s love
Till she’s buried beneath the clay
Foster and Allan song? And I have many memories of my mother, none of which are good, so to those who have, hang on to them.
No memories of my mother are good, for those who had a wonderful mother enjoy the memories my friends xxxx
I was blessed with having an amazing, wonderful mother who was my salvation, and made up for a physically and mentally abusive, cruel father. I will miss her for the rest of my life.
Thanks for sharing this lovely poem with us Kat.
my mom wasn’t anywhere near perfect but she’s the only one i had…and i miss her more each day.. about 6 months before she died we had started to become friends…i had so many questions i wanted to ask her but we were going thru some terrible and trying times involving the kidnapping of my 2 grandsons..(the courts didn’t see it that way,of course)..so my questions remain unanswered…if you still have your mom hug her for me..xx
I wish I could hug mine – I never did when she was alive. It was only after she stopped drinking after my father died that I became more involved with her, but I too, never got to ask her all the things I would have liked to have known about her, and my father………..xoxox