On A Photograph Of Jennifer Poem by Francis Duggan

She sits in her room quite relaxed on her chair
With the sunlight on some of her face and brown hair
A woman in her late twenties or early thirties maybe
And she is one who looks so lovely to me.

It's obvious she is in the family way
The beautiful photograph tell what a thousand words cannot say
That the birth pain will come to her before her moment of joy
At the first cry of her baby a girl or a boy.

For to be a mother to most women is enough fame
And this beautiful young woman Jennifer is her name
Must by now be a mother for it would appear
That this photograph was taken some weeks back or last year.

Though all what we hope for not all what it seems
The mother for her child has always great dreams
And Jennifer for her child will have big dreams too
And one hopes for her that all she wishes for comes true.

She sits in her room quite at ease on her chair
Eyes closed in reflection she seems free of care
Her fullness exposed it seems obvious to me
That Jennifer is a young mother to be.