LOVE AFTER LOVE

Reading this wonderful book called "The time traveler's Wife" by Audrey Niffeneger, gifted by my dad when I came back home. Came across these wonderful lines, just wanna share them with y'all.

Love after Love

The Time will come
when, 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.

-Derek Walcott

What's remarkable about this piece and which may mislead you is into thinking that this is a written for a lover, but its not, Read into the lines, not on the surface.
It made me realize, we spend our lives running after people to make them give us some worth, love us, treasure us.But, what we don't do is give ourselves the same.

I always have believed, if only we give ourselves half the worth that was denied to us by that someone behind who we ran all our lives yet never got a quarter of what we gave away, we could be so much better humans, happier humans,contented humans..This piece just reinstated it all over again.
I hope you liked this piece like I did...