Quoting Speedking1:

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 Wolcott

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 Wolcott

Quoting xwesik:

Love After Love for Derek

And again he said not now my dear
To dry and dry the wife of tears
Ever elevated by restrained trained ear
Coming and going growning old in years

And again he said not now my Dove
Plume but plucked to write of love
And the dreams shelved desires dulled
All waiting and waiting in some nivanna white hell

And again he said not now my sweet
That in total purity she kept all things neat
And never did ambrosia ichor nor wettes wine eat
Until the moment he said NOW his impediment to LOVE was gone...........Margaret Mlekush

Love After Love for Derek

And again he said not now my dear
To dry and dry the wife of tears
Ever elevated by restrained trained ear
Coming and going growning old in years

And again he said not now my Dove
Plume but plucked to write of love
And the dreams shelved desires dulled
All waiting and waiting in some nivanna white hell

And again he said not now my sweet
That in total purity she kept all things neat
And never did ambrosia ichor nor wettes wine eat
Until the moment he said NOW his impediment to LOVE was gone...........Margaret Mlekush

Quoting oldharleylover:

thumbs up!

thumbs up!