I am here for you for anything you need, any help or support I can give you you can count on me to always be there.

If you want to discuss the weather or talk about metaphysics then I can. If you want to be silent and be hugged then I am your man.

Shining diamond, I love to see you sparkle, even when your light is low I will be there to help you glow brighter and help it to return.

Is it irrational to feel jealous about something previously planned in a previous existence and long before things changed and my emotions ran deep, of someone confused and vulnerable who gets solace still with an old liaison?

My position is to accept and hope that it doesn't continue even if it is so difficult it is not part of my experience. Everyone is free to share wherever they want to!

A few minutes spent with you, a warm embrace a two-cheek kiss, and my day is suddenly lifted.
Oh, how my soul longs to touch you in love's perfect affection, and perhaps later the taste of you will be forever on my lips!

Amadou awakened with a start, it was Omar one of the guardians(security guards) of Yaldagou (the largest Hospital in the capital of Burkina Faso) knocking on the window of his taxi, Amadou had just settled down for the night after a long day in the heat and fumes that was Ouagadougou it was just after midnight on Sunday, he struggled to wake up rubbing the sleep from his eyes as Omar explained in Mori(local language), that there were two white people in need of his special service.

After a quick explanation that someone had died in a private clinic nearby and the body needed to be transported to the morgue at Yaldagou,  he snapped out of his sleepiness and thought for a moment how much he could charge the rich white people, it was two days after Eid and as a strict Muslim he had been celebrating the holidays and now he had been offered an opportunity to supplement his taxi income, someone had to do it and it was an unsavory job and anyway on the few occasions he had done it, it had been lucrative, it might as well be him!

Amadou thought to himself, if you had the misfortune to die in the day time there was a private service but in the night dignity went out the window and it was up to people like Amadou and a select bunch of taxi drivers with seats that could be configured to accommodate the corpses of the recently deceased to perform this service, so taxi 87 driven by Amadou would take this lady who had died from kidney and other ***** failures, after struggling for some days she eventually lost her battle and slipped into unconsciousness and finally died.

Amadou finally settled on 10000 CFA(local currency) a fair price, after all the so-called professionals would charge 30000 CFA three times more and it was around Eid "Allah Akbar".  

A quick "Thank you" to Omar for helping them and the two white people left with him for the short journey to the clinic, after the usual discussions the body was released and  transported to the morgue to join the other recently deceased waiting for burial in the morning,

Amadou, rearranged the seating in his taxi after parking up in his favourite place under the trees of Yaldago it was just after one thirty, a good ninety mins work he thought to himself, yawned, and settled down to sleep a few more hours before dawn prayers.

This was Africa and "someone had to do it" was his last thought.

Death brings changes, of course by definition, life has reached its final conclusion.
Death impacts emotions on others by the departing of someone close, creates hurt.
Death brings release for those concerned as well as mixed memories, inciting emotions.

Emotions sad or glad are just that, feelings to be relished, enjoyed and celebrated.
Emotions are feelings that are felt all at once or at a time, in the human condition.
Emotions are the glue that binds us individuals to each other to share our angst.

A new beginning, a change, a challenge to be welcomed or just the next step in the metamorphosis of this creation?
Phoenix rising from the ashes or swept away to be forgotten.

Nevertheless a change of identity a re-invention, some would hold it as a cyclical change, a repetition of the same problems or continued existence, is this the reality or is it the reality of the announcer?

Relinquished from the material world albeit temporarily. an opportunity presents itself to cherry-pick from experience and once again to cast one's net to the proverbial fishes and feast on the vast riches therein.

To open eyes that were once clamped shut but now yearn to feast again, to grow and absorb that which is there for absorption, to "live again" awakened by the splendour that existence brings.