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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
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
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Comment by Tallgirl on August 3, 2010 at 3:12am
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This is lovely!
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Comment by Juwanda on August 3, 2010 at 9:37am
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This is beautiful
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Comment by Michelle L on August 3, 2010 at 9:59am
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This is beautiful. Thanks for posting.
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Comment by Galvin on August 3, 2010 at 11:31am
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Very good.
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Comment by Ade on August 3, 2010 at 12:06pm
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Its one of my favorite poems!
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