Poem For Molly's Fortieth Birthday Poem Rhyme Scheme

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'Why do you	A
have stripes	B
in your forehead	C
Mama	D
Are you	A
old '	E
	-
Not old	F
But not so	G
young	H
that I cannot	I
see	J
the world contracting	K
upon itself	L
the circle	M
closing	K
at the end	N
	-
As the furrows	J
in my brow	O
deepen	P
I can see	J
myself	L
sinking back	Q
into that childhood	R
street	S
I walked along	T
with my grandfather	U
thinking he was old	F
at sixty three	J
since I was four	V
as you are four	V
to my forty	J
	-
Forty years	J
to take	W
the road out	X
Will another forty	J
take me	J
back	Q
	-
Back to the street	S
I grew up on	Y
back to	A
my mother's breast	Z
back to the second	A2
world war	V
of a second	A2
child	B2
back	Q
to the cradle	M
endlessly	J
rocking	K
	-
I am young	H
as you are	C2
Molly	J
yet with stripes	J
in my brow	O
I earn my youth	D2
as you must earn	E2
your age	F2
	-
These stripes	J
are decorations	J
for my valor	U
forty years	J
of marching	K
to a war	V
I could not declare	G2
nor locate	H2
yet have somehow	O
won	P
	-
Now	O
I begin	I2
to unwin	I2
unravelling	K
the sleeves	J
of care	G2
that have	J2
stitched up	K2
this brow	O
unravelling	K
the threads	J
that have kept	L2
me scared	M2
as I pranced	M2
over the world	M2
seemingly fearless	J
working	K
without a net	M2
knowing	K
if I fell	N2
it would	M2
only be	J
into that same	O2
childhood street	M2
where I dreaded	M2
to tread	M2
on the lines	J
not knowing	K
the lines	J
would someday	M2
tread	M2
on me	J
	-
Molly	J
when you are forty	J
read this poem	P2
tell me	J
have we won	P
or lost	M2
the war	V

Erica Jong

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