Love After Love

This poem I found in one of the front pages of the book, "The Time Traveler's Wife". I've heard this is a good book, so I'm giving it a try. Already, I love it because this poem starts it off. I think it's beautiful.

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 love letters from the bookshelf,

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

-Derek Walcott

Oh, and another awesome song.
Lillie - Lisa Hannigan. I think I like it better than the other one I posted earlier.


I have one slight problem in my life right now. It's a total blessing right now, though. I am surrounded by members of the church whom I've all fallen in love with. They are some of the most amazing people I've met. I only hang out with LDS people, and this has never happened to me before. But what happens when I leave, and I'm not surrounding myself with all members anymore? I don't want to think about it.