Love After Love, After Derek Walcott
Tomorrow. Sooner.
You will release what was suppressed
From that dark place you lived
You will see her. Connect, and
You will feel hunger for life, for the moment.
Today, you will hug the fear, kiss the doubt.
Share wine, bread, your heart.
Be not afraid. Embrace. Weep happiness.
Step out of the costume of silence.
Put on the cloak of courage.
Read your story as if freshly inked; a coda
To this verse. Smile. Circle your arms around
You. Trust joy.
Diana Rosen
Diana Rosen’s poems, essays, and micro fiction
appear in print and online journals, including, among others: Rattle, Tiferet
Journal, www.poeticdiversity.org, https://thefatdamsel.wordpress.com, www.dimeshowreview.com, www.silverbirchpress.com,
www.friedchickenandchocolate.com, www.verse-virtual.com, www.camrocpressreview, and in the anthologies: The Poetry Box: Love
Poems, Altadena Poetry Review, Those Who Can … TEACH: Celebrating
Teachers Who Make a Difference; BOLD INK, Collected Voices of Women and
Girls, and Kiss Me Goodnight, Stories and Poems by Women Who Were
Girls When Their Mothers Died
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