[00:00.16]Love After Love
[00:01.58]by Derek Walcott
[00:03.81]The time will come
[00:08.70]when, with elation,
[00:11.25]you will greet yourself arriving
[00:14.81]at your own door, in your own mirror,
[00:18.18]and each will smile at the other’s welcome,
[00:22.60]and say, sit here. Eat.
[00:27.90]You will love again the stranger who was your self.
[00:34.92]Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
[00:42.52]to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
[00:45.92]all your life, whom you ignored
[00:48.57]for another, who knows you by heart.
[00:53.76]Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
[00:59.87]the photographs, the desperate notes,
[01:03.58]peel your own image from the mirror.
[01:07.49]Sit. Feast on your life.