As a matter of fact, what happened to fighting for each other, taking the slope for each other even when the heart creaks? Whatever I did is a flaw but we could have had perks of love that mature with time and trials.

Now I’m idling around in an abyss of darkness because you left me with a dreaded mark inside my heart. I feel terrible yet for insignificant things I have done, but no matter, I wouldn’t have dropped the bar. I asked you to be patient with me because I was going through lethargic moments.

Now I’m left without breath because you took it away from me. We were just at the early age of a new revolution but now you left me. What about the dreams we had, the fate at hand not the flaws we made?

What happened to nuclear love that never gets shaken by seismic waves? You said Sphamandla is a bridge you burned down, now you crossed back to him. Many stones are left unturned and probably the future would have been greater than the beginning. We were still trying to find each other but in mist you disappeared once again. I try connecting the dots but I only get a deceiving portrait.

I love you even though I couldn’t show it better. I acted like a boy, I admit it, but my love for you is ageless. I crush every time I picture you in my mind knowing that I’m left with nothing but a memory. We got carried away by sunset thinking that all efforts are gone but forgetting that dawn is yet to come.

I devoted myself to you; I sold my soul to you because you are the only person that can hold it better. You are the only diamond I know that shines in the rough. Nobody said we were going to be perfect but efforts mattered.

All the calls, meet ups, were much greater than irrational words. I can’t just gaze while you leave but if you want me out of your sight always know that I tried.

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