Self Love

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A great poem sent to me when I really needed it:

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