Love after Love

[TWB]

I like this:

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 image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.


Derek Walcott


As love and sex are sometimes inextricably intertwined, we often forget to love ourselves and feast on our own lives. I love that image of boundless joy in self, as it is often a prerequisite to bringing joy to others.

 

[SilverVeil]

Beautiful

 

[TWB]

Perky, this is a shameless bump of an early morning post. Thanks for admiring my smoothness.

 

[MissTaken]

*sigh*


Thanks! I needed that, TWB.

 

[TWB]

Shameless Shameless Shameless poetry bump.

Does no one like poetry?

Does no one like parsing it out?

Or does everyone (except Misstaken, Silverveil and I) just think this is a shitty poem?

 

[Guest]

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[Mistress ReNae]

Touching

That poem touched a place down deep that I haven't visited in a while. Brings back some feelings of self realization for me. Thanks.

 

[SXCRgirl]

Thank you very much TWB. It was a much needed food for thought for today.