Love After Love By Derek Walcott – Full Text Of Poem
LOVE AFTER LOVE BY DEREK WALCOTT – We are going to read the full text of the poem Love After Love which was written by Derek Walcott.
As mentioned above, it is a poem which was written by a Saint Lucian poet named Sir Derek Alton Walcott. It is included in his Collected Poems.
Aside from being a poet, he was also a playwright. Walcott gained the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature and the first distinguished scholar in residence in the University of Alberta.
Some of his works include the Homeric epic poem Omeros and this poem.
Here is the full text of the poem uplifted from Medium:
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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