The Time Will Come

Here we are, one more trip around the sun, back again at the beginning of the holiday season. It's a time for self reflection, thanksgiving, forgiveness, and new dreams.

My present to you is, YOU.

Here is a poem that expresses this sentiment exactly. Enjoy!

LOVE AFTER LOVE

by 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. 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.

Much love and light,

Susan