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Comment by Melanie Lynn Moro-Huber on May 14, 2011 at 7:50pm

Octavia,

 

Thanks so much for sharing!  What a wonderful poem!

 

Melanie

Comment by Octavia McBride-Ahebee on May 3, 2011 at 8:37pm

The most extraordinary love poem is Love after Love by Derel Walcott.

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 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.

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