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Old World (public) => Poems => Topic started by: niamh04 on October 23, 2006, 10:39:56 AM

Title: Love After Love
Post by: niamh04 on October 23, 2006, 10:39:56 AM

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

Title: Re: Love After Love
Post by: mayflow on October 23, 2006, 04:10:03 PM

I love this too. I am like this with myself for sure.
I mean I love me and me loves I; we make a really
good pair! :)

Title: Re: Love After Love
Post by: niamh04 on October 24, 2006, 09:35:38 AM

Quote from: mayflow on October 23, 2006, 04:10:03 PM

I love this too. I am like this with myself for sure.
I mean I love me and me loves I; we make a really
good pair! :)

And we love you too, Mayflow!  :-* :-* :-* :-*