Feast on Your Life

Posted by Kelly on August 10, 2009 in Life | 3 comments

Here is a poem that was shared by a friend last week. It has been rattling gently around my mind ever since, so I thought I would pass it along.

Thank you, Rosemary!

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 others 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.