You will love again the stranger who was your self

 

I found this beauty from baby Kei's 16 year old diary. It's a beautiful reminder to re-cultivate your connection with the essence of your humanity and to find home within yourself and the continuous nature of such efforts.

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

Source: All Poetry (provided by the owner)


Happy Sunday :)






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