Hair as black
As a midnight sky,
And eyes,
So electric a blue,
Skin like
The richest cream
You ever knew...

Beauty from
The Old Country,
The Irish Land,
And my Father
Loved her
With all his heart...

But she sang for me,
Songs of the land
So far away,
Of Irish Eyes Smiling,
Of Red Sails In the Sunset,
And of Galway Bay...

My Mother
Sang to me,
Songs of longing
For that land
Far, far away,
Across the Irish Sea.

Scarlett Treat
January 9,2007

Scarlett Treat

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