Love After Love by Derek Walcott

A lovely woman shared this beautiful poem with
me. It brought tears to my eyes. Now I want to share it with you, my friends
and followers... enjoy!




Love After Love



The
time will come

when, with elation

you will greet yourself arriving

at your own door, in your own mirror

and each will smile at the other's welcome,

and say, sit here. Eat.

You will love again the stranger who was your self.

Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart

to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

all your life, whom you ignored

for another, who knows you by heart.

Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

the photographs, the desperate notes,

peel your own image from the mirror.

Sit. Feast on your life.
~ Derek Walcott ~