by Derrick WolcottThe day 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
Saying sit here, eat.You will love again
the stranger
who was yourself.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 book shelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror,Sit,
feast on your life.
