This poem caught my attention and reminds me of my journey in finding food as a healing, nourishing force in my life. How I have come to a place of relating to myself, celebrating with myself. To begin with myself in relationship creates beautiful reverberations into my relationships with others….with all.
Love After Love
by Derek Walcott
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.
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