Back Again

I'M BACK!!!!


Sheesh!  These extended hiatuses have become alarmingly frequent, where I find myself completely cut off from doing things that I love to do, which lately has included both writing and blogging.  But I'm back at it again, promising more exciting posts and interesting tidbits from my increasingly broad imagination.  I'm about to once again make it a habit to post everyday.  And it's also about time for some aesthetic changes as well.

So enough ranting about being back...it's time to get the show back on the road.

Marcus Jamison, the Rare Poet

Because First, We Must Love Ourselves

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.