In celebration, with immense gratitude to Louise Glück who has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature / Long ago many of us were wounded and many of us have been healed by this poem

(1914 -- during my father's first year)

FIRST MEMORY

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.

-- Louise Glück