Love After Love
Derek Walcott
The time will come
lwhen with elation
you willgreet yourself arriving
at your own door,in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other's welcom
and say,sit here.Eat.
you will love again the stranger who was yourself.
give win|.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 you life.