I was tweeting and came across a tweet saying let me write
myself a love letter. It was one of the formidable women I am following. So
after a few tweets I realised that as much as a love letter should and would
normally come from a lover, surely the word LOVE is universal so this is for
all the lovely woman out there. Not forgetting to say Hloni thank you for the
idea. I didn’t write this about one woman I wrote for every woman that will
read it. I also wrote it for those who think love can only come for the man you
are with. I also write it because I believe someone will rise from this letter
and realise they were always designed in love because the one who made them is
love.
Dear Masterpiece,
I LOVE YOU!
That’s all that I initially wanted to say however I feel I should say
more. After realising I come from a legion of great outstanding woman of the
Gatsheni clan who have taught me that Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu. I have seen a
Person in you and I LOVE that person.
I love that in my pain you are there to comfort me. You have kind words
to encourage me, you feed me and until my stomach and my spirit are content,
and then you cover me. In your home you allow my head to lie down. In my
confusion you talk me through my angst. Trauma and misery, you open your spiritual
being to mend and stitch me together. I LOVE YOU!
During the times that were funny you laughed with me. Told me hilarious
childhood stories and anecdotes of your upbringing that happened to be similar
to mine. You took pictures with me and hailed me as BEAUTIFUL. You CARED that
the idea of me thinking my skin was not perfect was rubbish. You exhausted at
great depth why I was fussing over things that don’t need attention. A friend,
a sister, a soldier you nudge me in the right direction. The pitty party only
last for a night because in the morning you are ready to exploit new avenues.
The ideas bounce freely out of you on how GREAT I am. I LOVE YOU.
Do you not know that I hang on every WORD you say? I wait to see your
SMILE and I long to see the HAIRSTYLE you texted and said you had changed. Do
you not know that I need your fashion ideas on what next to fill in my wardrobe
with or did you think we do that to just pass time? YOU were designed for ME
and I for you. Sadly the “others” taught us to be savages against each other.
But I want to see you SUCCEED. I want to see you be promoted out of where you
are into something NEW. I want to babysit your KIDS one day while you and your
PARTNER go out on a date. You DESERVE to be HAPPY.
So every morning you open your eyes and God’s glory unfolds. I wouldn’t
be COMPLETE without you around. I would not have a PURPOSE to be a part of or
involved in if it weren’t for you. You are my GIRL and I LOVE YOU!
