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 that has loved you all your life,
who 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.
Gena, that's so exquisitely beautiful, thankyou so much for posting it.
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Hi Elaine! yes its lovely I recently rediscovered it in 'The time travellers wife' hope you are well and business is good xx
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