ext_127704 ([identity profile] blue-lightning.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] greatpoetry2005-07-06 04:33 pm
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First Memory
Louise Gluck

Long ago, I was wounded. I lived
to revenge myself
against my father, not
for what he was--
for what I was: from the beginning of time,
in childhood, I thought
that pain meant
I was not loved.
It meant I loved.