Love After Love

By: Derek Walcott (Selected by the Author for highlighting Derek’s work)

Image by czu_czu_PL from Pixabay

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…