Dear Nthabeleng Comments

I've lived to see the impacts that family politics had on you, how it robbed you off your childhood memories, your smile and most importantly the meaning to your name.
Yeah, I know it's never been easy to live without a mother, but I hope your aunt has mothered you well to not feel the pinch of your mother's death. I am saying this because she single handedly made me who I am and still is. She is the grove of my life after God, I hope she's yours too. She'll always be there for you, she'll teach you about strength, and being a woman that she is today, she'll teach you things that I wouldn't be able to teach you even if I was given a chance.
I love you little sis, I know my words do not correlate my actions, I know you wish I'd show it more, but big brother has flaws and no that's no excuse, I would show it much more than I say it if I did not spend much more time away from you. The distance at which I am also shouldn't be an excuse, I guess this me saying to you NEVER PUT YOUR HAPPINESS IN SOMEONE ELSE'S HANDS.
Sometimes, on my attenuate visits at home, I'd see you as a portrait of pain standing before me, lowered shoulders, sad face and a bowed head. That alone sets a destruction company within me, it wrecks me to ever have peace whilst your peace you've never known. I'd wanna take that away from you cause none of this family curse deserves to be taking its tall on you. As tall as you are, I'd wish you could use a little bit of that height to stand out and tall against all that makes life a process of being unable to jump hurdles for you.
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