Love After Love

This was written by one of my favorite poets and essayists Derek Walcott. I wanted to share it here. It could be read as a letter to lost love or a sign of your own inner strength, as a reminder to take joy in yourself and who you are.


Love After Love

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 oen image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.