1. Love After Love
Derek Walcott, St. Lucia
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.
This poem to me means that it is important to love yourself. The poet is describing a typical scene of greeting a friend and eating with them. Except in this situation the poet is describing you doing these things with yourself. He is saying that we must look back on life and realize how important the past experiences have been. You will love yourself afterwards and deserve to reward yourself once in a while. Reflect on your life and learn to love yourself again. This poem has a pretty deep meaning and the author does a good job portraying it.
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