Love After Love
by Derek Walcott
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.
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Sometimes in your life things don't go well, you get hurt, people let you down.
Sometimes you go round in circles, getting advice from friends, family and mentors,
When actually the person who loves you is there all along.
Listen to your heart
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