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.
David
Walcott
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