For Love & For Story

For all the Loves that are ours, and yours, instead of chocolate or flowers, we give you stories, and a poem.

With hearts full of gratefulness for the gifts of listening, and telling,

– StoryCenter

Love After Love – by Derek Walcott

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.