> [!QUOTE] Poem > > # *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]]