English

• 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