We fell in love with Emma
She smiled she played so well
And now out in Australia
Only time will tell
But happily she plays the game
Her smile lights up the sky
Her common sense will see her through
She’ll play and smile and try
While here in quiet Offaly
We gather in the church
To mourn another lovely girl
So cruelly robbed from us
And all the world has gathered round
Their due respects to pay
To a girl just on the cusp of life
So sorely torn away
And Father Meade you said it well
The words you said this day
About the sorrow and the pain
And together we must stay
And from the grave her spirit soars
Her beauty and her grace
And loving people in heaven’s crowd
Will welcome her smiling face
Brian Fahy
18 January 2022
+ Father Michael Meade spoke quietly and beautifully to say words of love and words of life at the funeral mass of Ashling Murphy.
Erris Poetry 