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 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 lvoe letters from the bookshelf,

the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.

(Derek Walcott)

We Were Born to Love; To Live

When those eyes, that seemed to fit so perfectly upon your face

Opened in my direction that day

I felt for the briefest time,

A feeling that I'd forgotten,

The feeling of our two worlds being entwined,

And that maybe, just for a moment,

You remembered who I was,

Not who I've become.

My Only One

The sky has lost its colour,

The sun has turned to grey.

At least that's how I feel,

Whenever you are away.

When you leave I count your steps,

When you're here I count your words.

I can never accept reality,

Whatever it takes, I'll let my mind run its laps.

The sun has light up once again,

The sky and its colour reappear.

I know the cost but I still strive,

Never will I let you disappear.

Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost

"Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. "
- Robert Frost