Don't ask me why I am posting this as I don't know why. I just feel like it.

I have this up in front of my computer to remind me of the times when I have seen my family and friends forget that it is themselves who have to pick up the pieces and move on when anything happens to disrupt their lives be it love or illnesses or just the long labor of living each day.


Love after Love

by Derek Wilson

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 yourself.
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 image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.