Love After Love By Derek Walcott

Love After Love - By Derek Walcott
an incredibly beautiful poem by Caribbean poet and playwright Derek Walcott (January 23, 1930–March 17, 2017) .
An ode to coming home to oursleves
over and over again.
The path is within.
This poem can be found in Walcott's Collected Poems-1948-1984

"Come, Feast On Your life."

All love - Self love

Image by Vicktor Forgacs

Transcript

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.

Reviews

That's very beautiful lines 💟😍💟

Beautifully written and spoken. Too often we overlook ourselves without pause for appreciation and self love. Such a sweet love is our love within 💕. Namaste 🌟 🙏🏾