Thursday, April 26, 2007

A POEM

I may have posted this before but feeling low, it is worth my reading and sharing it again....

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

— Derek Walcott

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Wow. Powerful poem. I love it. I guess we all need to remind ourselves to love ourselves. Seems so difficult, doesn't it? You're in my thoughts and I hope this new pain and ill feeling passes soon. I love you, Geri