“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 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.”
born 23 January 1930 - died 17 March 2017 (aged 87)
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