What would happen if you discoverd who you really are? Derek Walcott in his poem, Love after Love, thinks it would be like two different people meeting for the first time and making friends. Enjoy!
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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 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.
Derek Walcott
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...
"We shall not cease from explorationAnd the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we startedAnd know the place for the first time."
T.S. Eliot
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you.
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