Love After Love

"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." -Derek Walcott

Someday, I will write something as emotionally convincing as this poem. I want to inspire people with my writing. I want people to fall in love with my words. To laugh at them, to smile with them, to cry with them. I want people to feel emotion radiating from my writing. I want people to feel the things that I feel when I write. And also, to feel the things I feel when I read from my favorite authors. Writing is my only outlet to express myself.