Her Life

She was once as strong as an ox Now she lays in a wooden box When she was fit and a young girl at that The boys used to tease her But she was still the one they’d wink at She was pretty and knew her own mind She was smart, just one of a kind She married at seventeen Not a man that she loved Just, one she approved of Chosen by her father With the hope they may fall in love She worked hard in the fields Bringing food to the table Every day digging and sowing What she was able They made a life together and she bore Five sons and 2 daughters He was away working there after And though she worked her fingers to the bone The house was always full of laughter Her children were her life she kept them clean and well fed And made them do chores to learn the value of bread As the years passed her by her looks faded and tired And her body grew weary and sad when her husband expired She never travelled or had money to burn But her life was fulfilled and I never heard her yearn For the easy life that I have Now she lays there contented knowing in the life that she had She did her best by her family through good and through bad.