She May Seem An Ordinary Person Poem by Francis Duggan

She may seem an ordinary person but she leads an extraordinary life
Five times a divorcee and six times a wife
Separated from her sixth husband of aggressive males she quickly tire
An ordinary person but in her much to admire

She has given birth to and raised ten children her youngest a daughter is eighteen
A woman in her early fifties her better days in life she has seen
A grandmother fourteen times over her descendants do multiply
Her family numbers keep growing as the Seasons and years tick on by.

She will never again re-marry she says six husbands more than enough
But none of her marriages worked out her married years on her were tough
All of her husbands had alcohol problems and by each one of them she was beat
But she had each one of them jailed for assault and their match in her they did meet.

For her years an attractive looking woman with strands of gray in her brown hair
And though she will never more marry she has the odd casual affair
With ten children and fourteen times a grandmother and to six different fellows a wife
She may seem an ordinary person but she leads an extraordinary life.