Love After Love Poem by Derek Walcott PDF
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This poem, "Love After Love," by Derek Walcott, explores the theme of self-acceptance and the cyclical nature of love, emphasizing the importance of loving oneself.
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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 you...
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 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 on the bookshelf the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own images from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life. Derek Walcott
