For quite
a long time I have heard the words:
"Spend your day like it’s your very last"
Doing the things with the people you love or just making
sure they know you love them
Sad and rather confusing how this saying mainly haunts
us when we've just lost someone unexpectedly (sad that it’s mostly Unexpected)
To this still-mysterious ordeal called "Death"
Be not proud you stranger...
Death, you’re a stranger that we know but can never
truly define
You live among us yet we still find it hard to recognize
you
You're just a moody something that just comes around as
it pleases
No doorbell... No black clouds... Just Smoke, to show the
already done deed.
You're so cruel you force us to have to understand you
Yet you refuse to understand us,
To understand that perhaps we need more time?!?
We're meant to live on such a contradictory world that
says we have all the time in it
Yet turns and says we have limited time, and we should
use it "wisely"
I personally reason with your existence as being
"The balance of life"
Some means to try understanding that we can't all fit on
to this stupidly and surprisingly small world.
This makes it no less hard though!!
I know we'll meet, recognize and know exactly who you
are...
...But in our own uniquely "given" time and
way,
It’s sad because even then you'll still deny us the time
to inform and prepare our loved ones who we’ll be leaving behind
Recently, you have claimed our most wonderful and beloved
LERATO NGAPO...
A lovely, beautiful young lady whom we've grown to know,
love and make pleasant memories with
Life,
as sometimes misleading as it is, made us look forward to her beautiful
successful future
In the meanwhile, we went on about our 'lives' and
forgot to make time to show appreciation
Little did we know that God had his own different plans,
or is it rather that we chose not to dwell on the thoughts of What-Ifs?
We went to church together, and she used to come to me
for some advice...
We’d end on a note that she should always strive for
success and avoid distractions.
I keep reminding myself to not question The Lords'
intelligence.
But such deals are hard to be kept intact.
I keep the hope that one day,
...just one day, we'll all get the answers to every
single question we've ever had...
One day, definitely in another
Heartaches with intense confusions were created to be
cried upon,
Because in some strange way... the tears almost sooth
the pain away.
I did cry about Lerato's passing,
We weren't necessarily "close", but I loved
her so much like a little sister
...and had always envisioned an amazing future for her
It feels like an unfulfilled promise, an unwanted wake
from a Beautiful dream.
It deeply saddens and confuses me entirely.
I'd seen her furious, happy, and sad
I've heard her crazy sweet laughter, crazy sarcastic
remarks on certain things, annoyed statements...
.. And always admired her presence, it always put a
smile to my face to see her smiling back.
She had a lovely smile, which she always carried around
with her even on some of her sad days.
I truly cannot recall a bad memory of her,
That’s why I loved her so dearly (and will always love
the memory of her)
Her church life was filled with so many beautiful people,
who truly loved her,
This I know for I had witnessed it first hand
May her beautiful soul Rest in perfect peace,
I speak for the few mutual friends we shared when I say:
"We appreciate the limited time we had been blessed
with, to have spent with her... We are truly grateful to have known you the way
we did... We will most definitely miss you, some more than others yes, but
we'll all still miss you."
I pray that God strengthens your family through this unfortunate ordeal, that he blesses them with the wisdom of dealing well with it all.
FAREWELL 'RATOO',
As Bongani had said "Till we meet again Lady
Lira"
Rest in Peace Lovie.
PS: our love for you remains intact! 
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