The time will come <br />when, with elation <br />you will greet yourself arriving <br />at your own door, in your own mirror <br />and each will smile at the other's welcome, <br /> <br />and say, sit here. Eat. <br />You will love again the stranger who was your self. <br />Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart <br />to itself, to the stranger who has loved you <br /> <br />all your life, whom you ignored <br />for another, who knows you by heart. <br />Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, <br /> <br />the photographs, the desperate notes, <br />peel your own image from the mirror. <br />Sit. Feast on your life.<br /><br />Derek Walcott<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/love-after-love/
