{"id":2326,"date":"2010-08-23T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beyondblue\/2010\/08\/mindful-monday-love-after-love.html"},"modified":"2010-08-23T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T10:00:00","slug":"mindful-monday-love-after-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/2010\/08\/mindful-monday-love-after-love.html","title":{"rendered":"Mindful Monday: Love After Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

For today’s Mindful Monday, I thought I’d post Derek Walcott’s classic poem, “Love After Love.” It has become a powerful text for me in my recovery.<\/em>
\nThe time will come\"mirror.png\"<\/span>
\nwhen, with elation
\nyou will greet yourself arriving
\nat your own door, in your own mirror
\nand each will smile at the other’s welcome,
\nand say, sit here. Eat.
\nYou will love again the stranger who was your self.
\nGive wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
\nto itself, to the stranger who has loved you
\nall your life, whom you ignored
\nfor another, who knows you by heart.
\nTake down the love letters from the bookshelf,
\nthe photographs, the desperate notes,
\npeel your own image from the mirror.
\nSit. Feast on your life.<\/p>\n

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