Forever 22 ❤️
Aaliyah, you have been weighing heavy on my mind and heart more than ever…it’s like my body, my entire existence has a visceral reaction to the approach of August, before my mind can even compute what month I’m in. My heart always knows before my brain does. It’s innate. I dread this month. This day. Some years I’ve been able to focus on the positive of your life, your legacy. Celebrating you the best way I know how. This year, I can’t help but feel the sorrow sweep over me in waves, the immense void seems bigger than ever….the loss, palpable. Life has really been an intense battle as of late, but your voice, your joy, your essence always comforts me through my struggles enough for me to somehow make it through the day. I feel guilty at times that I’m not present on here like I used to be, like I’m somehow letting you down. But I know you know my heart, I can see it in every little message you send my way. When I’m walking through a store, on the verge of tears because I’ve had a difficult day, I hear your voice come over the loudspeakers, like you’re singing just for me. Like that’s your way of letting me know that you hear me and that I will be ok. So thank you Aaliyah, for still being there. For still guiding us. Guiding me. For still being a beacon of light in an often all too dark world. It’s hard to believe that you have now been gone the same amount of years that you once graced this Earth 💔
I miss you daily, I love you…eternally. I know you know how much.
Rest easy my LiLi 🕊️💫 I’ll be blasting your songs all day today. Be sure to sing along with me 🥰
P.S My niece is named after YOU. I promise your legacy will continue to shine on through our little ones, the way that you deserve. I will forever make sure she knows exactly who the highest, most exalted one was and forever will be ❤️
