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.
Feb 20, 2008, 06:27PM PST | 0 comments
Embracing myself fully has taken alot. Sometimes I don’t really understand why..I was raised to do for people and early on I realized that some take that kindness for weakness. I want to focus on my love for self. My goals for self.
Those goals include sharing any knowledge I have with my community. To be engaged in life…but I can not truly help other people until I love all of me. To live a full life no matter what others have to say about it. Facing this adversity has made me stronger than I originally thought. I have been thru to much not to put the Most High and myself first.
Peace
Jan 14, 2008, 08:25AM PST | 0 comments
I am a very independent person. After comming this summer some of my fam was a little more comfortable with me moving to New Orleans to do community work. I felt before I left that I would miss my kindreds dearly. I wasn’t even prepared for how much they have said they miss me. I feel so honored to know the people in my life. Those that really love me for me. I have really let them know that I love them too. Some people here try to try me because they have no idea the things I have gone thru to bring peace into my life. The energy I try to cultivate in order to be different from the negativ people outhere. Outkast or not, I love and I am loved…
Peace
Jan 14, 2008, 08:13AM PST | 0 comments
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