Love After Love by Derek Walcott

Much of the inspiration for Derek Walcott's
poetry comes from the history of Saint Lucia,
where he was born. This poem has a theme of
accepting yourself as you are. Before you can love
others, you need to love yourself.




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 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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