Loving Yourself, it’s Outrageous
January 11, 2008
One of my favorite poems in the world is “Love after Love” by Derek Walcott.
This poem came to me through David Whyte’s book “The Heart Aroused Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America”.
I was reading David Whyte’s book because I went to a Deep Trance Identification Workshop in California with Stephen Gilligan who is a Eriksonian hypnotist extraordinaire one of the few living people who trained with Milton Erikson, but I digress a lot actually.
So here it is, hopefully I am not violating any copyright laws but keying it in.
Love after Love by Derek Walcott
The time will come
when, with elation
you greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in you own mirror,
and each will smile at the other’s 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, who 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 form the mirror.
Sit Feast on your life.
Today in this moment Feast on your unique and outrageously beautiful life.
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Namaste, eh!
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