All in the Family...

Love After Love

by Derek Walcott

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.

~

My eldest sister just started her blog: Three Small Men and she is so very gifted in her writing, among her many talents. She must have inherited it from my mother, who blogs over at Texas Trifles.

The talent for putting thoughts into witty words, so to paint a picture in the mind must have been diluted by the time it got down to the 4th daughter. Sadly, I am nowhere near the writers that the other two beauties' blogs I listed are. Actually, I'm fairly certain the last sentence I just wrote could use re-wording and better structure... (however the sound of the television drifting into our tiny, messy & cramped "office" - 'professional wrestling' no less - is making it a bit hard to concentrate, but I'm not much for excuses)

I hope that you, whoever is reading this, enjoys my ladies' musings. Their stories are a treat, so sit down, relax and feast on the genius that is their gift.