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 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.

-Derek Walcott