reverie painting by frank o'meara

This is in another more gentle time
as if any time has ever been gentle
thank you dear sir for capturing me
when I was but a young lass pensive
you died in 1888 at aged thirty five
you painted me you did not know that
years later I would see myself there
when I was a young woman look again
is it the young woman or the ghosts
many ghosts in this painting imprinted
how fascinated I wonder if you are still
painting me did you show me that picture
of that lake with bodies falling in deep
only this lake was the evil of the bomb
the evil of blackness that called them
It is me in your painting I know for sure