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The writer describes the past as sure, sound, and old, linked with love and hated in its discorse.

The four lines join confidence in the past with conflicting feeling and a final observation that time is short. They give no specific remembered event.

A four-line typed reflection: 'This is the way the past is written. Sure / and sound and old. Linked with love and / hated in its discorse, a similarity of / time, so short as well.'

The passage describes the past as both settled and contradictory, loved and hated at once. The short, broken sentences sound like a preface for a memoir, ending on the brevity of time.