Love After Love

**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 have ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the picture from his wall, go into his room and open the window toward morning's face, climb out. Let the night be your studying. Let darkness be your teacher and say, I desire. I desire. I desire.