Happy Valentine's Day
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.
- Derek Walcott
Happy Birthday, Carrie!
posted by riversgrace | 9:56 AM PERMALINK
4 Comments:
Wonderful.
I hope you feel nothing but love today, my friend.
:)
This is beautiful, thank you. It made me cry. But I needed to read that tonight...
Love this piece. LOVE it. Great advice, you know: "Feast on your life."
With your help, I'm finding that making a feast of my life makes it's easier not to make a feast of tortilla chips and cheese.
Love to you. Big, big love to you.
Thank you, Prema!
love.
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