When I met you, you didn’t pretend, but immediately presented me with your pure uncontrollability. You didn’t dress up, but were simply the way you are and gave me the freedom to deal with you in the time I needed.
Your wild, impetuous, magical nature with its inhabitants is as free and stubborn as I imagined. Only in reality it is even more beautiful. I can lose myself in your wideness. I look up to your peaks and remember the moment when I was allowed to touch the sky on your highest point. Then it was all over me. Your spirit found me but I was not yet ready.
So we got to know each other, played together and sometimes disagreed. But you didn’t give up and introduced me to one of your very special characters. Your humans. Only the best ones were to be allowed to get to know me. And so, right at the beginning, you gave me a companion who has been familiar to you for a long time. With her I was to get to know and love you. To feel your spirit and what it is capable of.
This memory is dedicated to these people.
I wanted to get to know you better and dug my way into your heart. The people you grew up with showed me your beauty, your richness, your warmth and above all your freedom. And that’s when it was finally over for me. I lost my heart to you and you returned my love. You gave me the kind of time I can only spend with you. Your people are now as much a part of me as your unique wilderness. I take you with all your rough edges and when I am just annoyed by you, your African Spirit shows me that it is worth being loved by you.
I don’t know much about you yet. The time was too short for that and you are simply too multifaceted. Let’s work on it and I believe I can find something like a home with you. But you also have to understand that you can’t have me all to yourself. I have to move on and if you let me go, then you can be sure that I will come back to you. Saying goodbye is really anything but easy but I promise you, I will always carry you in my heart and until we meet again, we will always have the many beautiful memories.