Love After Love

I have been reading this poem on an almost daily basis these past couple of weeks. Thought I would share (hope that's allowed?) in the hopes it might be significant and helpful to some of you here.

Love After Love - Derek Walcott

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.

tis good, tis true

Thanks! Great poem. Very helpful