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 others 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