For Maria, from Oupa<\/p>\n
By Firoza & Jeremy Karodia<\/p>\n
As I float between space and time,<\/p>\n
Between the melodies of history and<\/p>\n
Harmonies of memory,<\/p>\n
I dance silently thinking of you\u2026<\/p>\n
I dare say it\u2019s hard for you to negotiate<\/p>\n
Life in this moment in time without me<\/p>\n
But I am taken to the unwritten and<\/p>\n
Unwavering pledge we made to each other<\/p>\n
When we first laid eyes on each other\u2026<\/p>\n
That pledge to live with love,<\/p>\n
To abide by honour.<\/p>\n
That pledge that was steeped in honesty and loyalty to each other\u2026<\/p>\n
And by doing so for each other<\/p>\n
We were able to dedicate our pledge to love life to its fullest.<\/p>\n
Embrace the birth of our beautiful baby daughter, Searatoa.<\/p>\n
We were able to journey together and navigate the pitfalls and hardships<\/p>\n
but also be mesmerized by the beauty and joy that life offered\u2026<\/p>\n
I could not do it alone\u2026<\/p>\n
nor could I do it any other way without you\u2026<\/p>\n
We became US because of each other\u2026<\/p>\n
I saw in you a shadow of me thus making us one\u2026<\/p>\n
The journey we undertook evolved into a resilience\u2026<\/p>\n
A resilience so radiant it shines on me through the fog\u2026<\/p>\n
I believe that this resilience is the inspiration from which you will<\/p>\n
continue to grow,<\/p>\n
Continue to love and fight.<\/p>\n
Continue to contribute to humanity because of your humanity\u2026<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I may not be here but I am here\u2026<\/p>\n
I am not ahead or behind you\u2026<\/p>\n
I am right beside you\u2026<\/p>\n
I live through you\u2026<\/p>\n
I see through your eyes<\/p>\n
As you see through mine\u2026<\/p>\n
I live in your heart\u2026so just look into<\/p>\n
yourself and you will find me there\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n Aluta Continua<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For Maria, from Oupa By Firoza & Jeremy Karodia As I float between space and time, Between the melodies of history and Harmonies of memory, I dance silently thinking of you\u2026 I dare say it\u2019s hard for you to negotiate Life in this moment in time without me But I am taken to the unwritten…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-african-friends-comrades"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"twh@oupa","author_link":"https:\/\/karibu.org.za\/oupa-lehulere-memorial-website\/author\/twhoupa\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"South African Friends & Comrades<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"For Maria, from Oupa By Firoza & Jeremy Karodia As I float between space and time, Between the melodies of history and Harmonies of memory, I dance silently thinking of you\u2026 I dare say it\u2019s hard for you to negotiate Life in this moment in time without me But I am taken to the unwritten...","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karibu.org.za\/oupa-lehulere-memorial-website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karibu.org.za\/oupa-lehulere-memorial-website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karibu.org.za\/oupa-lehulere-memorial-website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karibu.org.za\/oupa-lehulere-memorial-website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karibu.org.za\/oupa-lehulere-memorial-website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/karibu.org.za\/oupa-lehulere-memorial-website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":750,"href":"https:\/\/karibu.org.za\/oupa-lehulere-memorial-website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions\/750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karibu.org.za\/oupa-lehulere-memorial-website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karibu.org.za\/oupa-lehulere-memorial-website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karibu.org.za\/oupa-lehulere-memorial-website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}