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  • speaker Is child recalling their mothers life before she was born. Almost torments Mum for the type of fun she had before becoming a mother. Accepts the toll the child had on their mother’s life, and longs for her ‘old’ mother instead. The mother who was a young child experiencing life.
  • “I’m ten
    …years away”
  • “Bend from the waist…
    …shriek at the pavement”
  • “I’m not here yet…

    …the thought of me doesn’t occur”
  • “I knew…
    …you would dance like that”
  • “The late one…

    …you reckon it’s worth it”
  • “The decade ahead…

    …of my loud possessive yell was the best one, eh?
  • “Whose small…
    …bites on your neck, sweetheart?”
  • “I wanted the bold…
    …girl winking in Portobello“
  • “Sparkle and…

    …waltz and laugh before you were mine”
  • What themes are themes presented in the poem?
    responsibility of motherhood
    passing of youth
    regret