The New Year. A celebratory time when all that has passed has passed and there is so much hope and goodness on the horizon. A time for new beginnings, new ways of thinking about ourselves, and reconnecting with our inner selves. The Beautiful Women Project would like to share with all of you this poem by Derek Walcott entitled, "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 image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.
Welcome to a New Year, A Love Renewed
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
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