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Love after Love
Derek Walcott*
Translated by: Majeed Al-Barghouthi
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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
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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
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all your life, whom you ignored for another,
who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf
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the photographs, the desperate notes
peel your own image from the mirror
Sit. Feast on your life
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* Derek Walcott, Nobel prize winner- Literature- was born in 1930 in Lucia,
one of West Indies Islands. He is a poet and playwright who writes mainly in English
دريك والكوت، الحائز على جائزة نوبل في الآداب سنة 1992 ، ولد سنة 1930 في سانتا لوشيا إحدى