Comments on: You Know That Life is Like a River

By: Opa Bear

Opa Bear — Sun, 20 May 2012 09:41:44 +0000

Thank you Dear Friend !

By: rgl

rgl — Sat, 19 May 2012 15:38:39 +0000

Thank you, Opa, for these words. It just so happened that only moments after reading your comment this poem came to my attention:

Love After Love – David 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 have 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, Collected Poems 1948-1984, New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1986.

By: Opa Bear

Opa Bear — Sat, 19 May 2012 08:27:23 +0000

Dear Robert,
Again a Post with a great picture and interesting issues to think about and then to fill it in one’s own life.
Yes, the river sometimes doubles back on itself, and sometimes we are able to notice this in our life, but how many times we realize the fact, that although the river is doubling back it keeps flowing onward, …..into the future.