Love after Love

my boy's sacred memorial site, where healing takes place every time I go.

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 stay, 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.

( One of my favorite poems because it speaks to coming back Home to Myself)