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The Companion

 

COMPANIONSHIP

 

It might not always be what you want it to be, but it is always what you need to get through this life.

Dear God

Thank you for the smiles and thank you for the laughs. Thank you for the time and thank you for the chance. Thank you for the conversations and thank you for the silence. Thank you for the feeling of home in others and in ourselves. Thank you for tomorrows fuelled with hope from yesterday’s promises. Thank you for the tight hugs we get. As tight as though they will hold us for tomorrow. Dear God, Thank you for companionship.

 

Dear Companionship

I have come to know you in many forms. As a daughter, a mother, a friend and a lover. Each relationship different from the next, two common things about them all is love and growth. You provided peace through conversations filled with laughter and peace in moments silence was a third partner in our encounters. You provided friends to celebrate the joys of life with and shoulders to cry on, on our days to mourn. You provided beings our hearts can call home and equipped us with the tools needed to build homes in ourselves. You require nothing but time to strengthen bonds of friendship and mould them into brotherhoods. What we consider a meaningless meetings by chance, becomes your birth. God was right when He said it is not good for man to be alone because in all my happy moments, you were there. You came with blessings and lifetime lessons. In moments of despair, you come with words of encouragement. I have yearned for you on many occasions and mourned you more than a thousand times.  

But, with everything that I know, the good and the bad, I will always welcome you. Wholeheartedly   

 

To the many beings I am blessed to have in my life, thank you. Thank you for seeing something worth staying for. Thank you for never ending reassurance of love. Through the memes you share, the ideas you inspire and words of encouragement. I truly am a better person because of the roles to choose to play in my life. What we didn’t think much of has now attached itself to my identity through our experiences together. Thank you for the part you played and continue to play. I pray our being connected brings nothing but the best in you and me. I love you, always and forever

Love

Rethabile, The Companion.

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