Love After Love by Derek Walcott

"Love After Love" struck me as a sort of self-help poem about recovering after a relationship. It talks about loving yourself after all the drama that has passed. Often, after a messy break-up, people tend to go into a spiral of self-destruction. The poem talks about the opposite of that: taking care of yourself after a time of constantly giving to someone else. In order to move on and fall in love with another, we first have to learn how to love ourselves.