TO HER WITH LOVE.

Hey you,
It’s been ages since I last saw you. Ages have added days to your timeline, so I choose this date and time to pen down some lines.
Today is your birthday but I won’t ask how old you have gotten since I know how much you hate the word old. I have never forgotten that sweet slap you gave me the last time I used that word on you ha-ha, but I do hope that days have added grace to your fine self, tuning your physique to rhyme with the passing times. I hope that heavens have showered you immensely with the knowledge and wisdom that befits a lady who has seen the passing of many moons and suns.
Today I would have sung you a happy birthday song but you know that the birds of the air felt envious anytime rolls changed and you were the one serenading me, uttering beautiful words and belting our angelic tunes. My friends have been telling me to forget you and move on but I can’t because I didn’t let you off my heart and when you left, I still couldn’t let you off my life. So I won’t and will never call you my ex even when you and I are apart. You see, even the devil on my shoulder misses the glory you brought, he still whispers in my ear that he has never seen an angel like you.
I have come to a realization that for my life to have meaning, you have to be in the equation to be able to solve this love problem. You were and are still the joy in my life lest I forget the faith of a great future that I so dream of, so if you want to call me promiscuous, I don’t care because thinking of how we used to be and how we can forever be intertwined in love, gives me the hope that one day we will be one again.
They keep telling me to wait for the woman of my dreams but I don’t sleep so I can’t find her because the sound of you calling out my name in that soft purr in your voice, keeps me awake. There are countless things I would have loved to say to you, countless moments I would have wanted to experience with you, countless words I would have loved to whisper into your ears only and see you blush and giggle, you know me and my crazy naughty mouth, but I hope that destiny will cross our paths again, that one day I will get to whisper those words I never shouted and shout for the whole world to hear those words that I whispered to you.
As you add one more day to your life and blow one more candle, I pray that your wishes come true. I still hold you dear and look forward to that day when I set mine eyes on you.
By Githinji Kiiru.