Anya,
I don't even know where to begin with this. Matka always told me we don't speak of the dead. She told me that it was bad luck and a gateway to unwanted attentions from sinister powers not of this world. I think she would've made an exception for you. I can't fathom speaking or thinking of you ever bringing anything other than joy. You were the best thing that ever happened to me. You were the rainbow in the middle of a downpour, the sun that came after a lifetime of snow. You were my angel, and I guess…now that's perhaps a little more literal than I'd like to admit.
I'm sorry I failed you the way I did. I'm sorry that I ever left to go across the street to the grocer to fetch something for supper. I should've taken you with me. I should've insisted. Maybe if I had, you'd be here beside me now. Or maybe even pulling faces at my sentimentality and sensitivity to thinks that were rooted in the past. Sometimes I wonder what you'd look like now, full grown and matured - an adult in the prime of her life. I wonder if you'd look like me or perhaps more like your father. Maybe you'd be somewhere in the middle, the link that joins us both. I know you'd beautiful and I know you'd bring joy to a world that is sorely deprived of it now.
But God needed you more. Maybe he got lonely up there, and needed a little girl to come and sit on a plush white cloud and tell him jokes about pixies and stories about all the adventures you'd imagined in your head. I like to think of some of the ones you used to tell me, especially when it's stormy. They're precious fragments of you that I don't ever want to let go of. I can't bring myself to forget, or to erase such creativity and exuberance.
I miss you, mój mały gołąb. I miss you so much it hurts. But I guess I'll just have to cling to the old proverbs and hope they hold true - We only part to meet again.
Dać wieczne odpoczywanie.
- Matka x