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Through the Looking-Glass
2021-06-10 12:07:28 (UTC)

Love After Love

Love After Love - Derek Walcott


The time will come when with, elation
You'll 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 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.




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