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 stronger who was yourself.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself,
to the stranger who has loved you
all your life, where 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 immigrate from the mirror.
Sit, Feast on your life.
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 stronger who was yourself.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself,
to the stranger who has loved you
all your life, where 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 immigrate from the mirror.