This is my favourite poem of all time

[Honey Pumpkin]

And I find it really comforting right now, when I've been dumped and am sad. I remembered thinking about it on the bus coming home, and I thought I'd post it here, because it's so beautiful. It's about learning to love yourself again.

 

"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."

 

I love these lines:

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

 

Just thought I'd post it here because it is so beautiful and moving, and really comforting.

[Lady Luck]

WOW!! That's a really beautiful poem. I think I'm going to post it as a blog on my MySpace, if you don't mind, that is.

[jettison]

It's a beautiful poem with lots of great meaning. Loving yourself is one of the hardest concepts for all of us to grasp. Even those who have a healthy love of self occasionally go through spells where they've "fallen out of love" so to speak.

 

The secrets are always found through meditation and aloneness.

[Honey Pumpkin]

WOW!! That's a really beautiful poem. I think I'm going to post it as a blog on my MySpace, if you don't mind, that is.

 

Go for it - I love this poem, and I honestly think it's one of the most beautiful ones I've ever read and really moving and uplifting. A lot of poetry about love and heartbreak is a real downer, this is more about you. I always find it unbearably moving when I remember to reread it.

[Lady Luck]

By the way, your sig. quote is awesome, too. I'm a sucker for insightful words