Love after Love
The day will come when
With elation
You will greet your self
Arriving at your own door
In your own mirror
And each will smile at the other's Welcome
Saying: sit here, eat
You will love again the stranger
Who was yourself
Give wine, give bread
Give back your heart to your self
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 and feast on your life.
Derek Walcott