Love After Love
Written by 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,
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 first heard this poem recited on Oprah a few years ago, and I instantly fell in love with it. She keeps a copy of this poem in her bathroom and it's the first thing she sees in the morning, every day! I think that's a wonderful way to start out your day. Don't you?)
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