Derek walcott poems love after love book

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Love after love derek walcott pdf

Prev Poem. Next Poem. My husband died 10 years ago. He was the love of my life, my soul-mate, my best friend. I have not known how to 'adjust' to him being gone until I read this poem, "Love After Love. Read complete story. By Derek Walcott more 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.

You will love again the stranger who was yourself.

Derek walcott poems pdf

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. Feast on your life.