[Here comes the responsibilities, the expectations, the need for assurances. But being married, we are halfway towards the Jannah, insyaAllah]
You were twelve years old when I was born. Mak didn’t expect that she is going to have another baby. Alhamdulillah, I do have a lot of sweet memories of growing up with you. I remember how you taught me English alphabets each evening, when you came back from school. I remember all the hide & seek games we used to play. Then I started to grow fatter than you! HEHE. Aiyyah, I felt so bad every time strangers thought you were my adik! I always envied your ability to clean all the chores, while I don’t even have the strength to even wash any single plate. Lazy me! Thus, you will always nag & angry with me. But, today I want you to know, no matter how we fought, we will always be sisters.
No matter how we have fought, we will always be sisters.
Neither marriage nor distance nor children will change
The frictional fondness, part balm and part blisters,
No dawn can diminish nor passion make strange.
Like two trees with their wrestling roots underground,
Fighting for sun while restraining the wind,
By close and protracted proximity bound,
We’ve been shaped by a force that no fate can rescind.
And so it’s with undaunted pleasure that I
Bid farewell to a part of myself, for I know
That beyond the illusions of what, when, and why,
We’ll be together wherever we go
[I love you both!]
Wassalam
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