Tuesday, September 5, 2017

So Long My Dear One, So Long..



Its Friday, 9th June 2017, as the clock ticks away, I look up its exactly 11.33pm.

The count down begins. It is exactly 60 days to the Kenya’s General Elections and exactly 27 minutes before I turn 27 years! I am filled with mixed emotions, I am both sad and happy at the same time. Sad that am getting older (I mean we all want to remain sweet 16, right?). Happy that God has been so merciful that I have survived a quarter a century topped with 2 years, Allah is indeed great no? When I remember, just two months and a week ago, I lost a very close friend, a former colleague, he rested at just two weeks short of his birth day. He never lived to celebrate his 28th birthday, so I have all the reasons to murmur a prayer of thanks giving to God.

And for a moment, memories of my life happenings for the past 26 years flood my mind. I go back in time to all the events that occurred. From the friendships, to heartbreaks, to achievements, to silly moments, to goodbyes, to good times, to bad times, to sorry moments, to lessons learnt, to future plans, and yes life always happened, because I always live large. But there was this particular moment, a star moment, when I met him, things were never going to be the same again, the obsession has never stopped ever since.

I am watching a movie on my laptop, I glance at the bottom right corner, it reads 11.55pm and we are 5 minutes shy of midnight. The intensity of the excitement mounts, this is truly happening. I can’t help it. Clearly my company is good, but it would have been great with him besides me. It feels empty without you, it’s like there is no me without you.

They say God speed is always on time, I agree. But where have you been all this while, I have never seen a soul like yours before. It’s been not so long ago, but you make me wonna be a better version of myself every day, you make me look at things in a totally different world view, I feel like I should sit by my laptop every night and write a love letter to you. I miss you a lot today, and a little more every day. If there is a place I wonna be in right now is by your side, always and forever.

The loneliness, the emptiness, the aloneness, the lonesomeness, the separateness, the solitude, the absence, the distance, the emotions, the feelings, the love, the affection, the attachment, the fondness form part of my every day wish. That chaque jour, I wish you were never so far from me, that you would not be so busy for me, that you would call often enough to check on me, that I don’t have to cry myself to sleep every night, that instead of wasting so much time with bureaucracies of love, we should just be straightforward, that you would at least take an emotional responsibility, that the emotional investment will not be in vain, that you will always love me and not make feel jealous in front of other women. 

My love, the list is endless but as you see, I am just a woman in love, with so many anxieties, uncertainties, and some of these things will not make sense to you, but like you asked me I will hang in there. Looking forward to happy days, but I swear some days you do make me feel desperate for your love, is it too much that I ask from you? That you are not sure about me, about us? Do you need some space and time? Please tell me, I need some answers. It’s true, am awfully afraid of losing you, but I don’t wonna lie to myself

Yours truly, 
One and only,

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