love after love
by MeL on December 19, 2008
the time of the year to reflect and reminisce.
it’s a tad premature, but yes, the ticker clock is ticking down and year 2008 is coming to an end quirky soon.
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came across this piece. beautiful.
do I know me?
Love After Love
The time will come
When, with elation,
You will greet yourself arriving
At your own door, in your mirror,
And each smile at the other’s welcome,
And say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was yourself.
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.- Derek Walcott
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