Love after love

Question 1

1st

Answer 1

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.

Question 2

2nd

Answer 2

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.

Question 3

3rd

Answer 3

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.

Question 4

Author

Answer 4

Derek Walcott

Nobel prize in literature, 1992
St. Lucian
Homeric epic poem: Omeros