09-08-2022, 12:35 PM 
	
	
	
		From the perspective of someone who has only ever been a child, this is a horribly intriguing couplet. the past tense "was"...
Whatever happened in the past that informed this poem -- does it hardly matter -- I feel the pain, and the strength.
	
	
	
Whatever happened in the past that informed this poem -- does it hardly matter -- I feel the pain, and the strength.

 

 
