mercoledì 8 ottobre 2014

Love after Love












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, whos you ignored 
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the deperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.


Derek Walcott