For You

Though the time has come for us to part, your memory shall remain dear to me. I shall take it with me wherever I go. I have wholly become a part of you and you of me. My absence within your grounds does not mark the loss of my love for you. In fact, it will only strengthen our bonds as I will test myself among the others whom I will meet once I go outside your boundaries. In you I have grown so much and I owe much too. There are times when I’d think that I know everything, but then I fall. You continually correct all my wrongs and it is only now that I’m thankful for that. If it hadn’t been for your love and care, I might have gone astray. I have learned so much from you. You have molded my existence with values which at times, I had to learn the hard way.

We have been through so much that when I think of your thoughts, memories gush through me like waves rushing to shore. Reminiscing these times never fails to put a smile on my face. It is sad that I must leave, but I must. I don’t know how to repay you for all the goodness you have done to me. So it is in my last days with you that for the first time I shall say this to you. A word I have selfishly kept to myself and have forgotten to utter. “Thank you for everything!” I will never forget our times together. And I know that your gates will always be open for me when I return to show you by then. I hope, rather I’m sure; I am now better and stronger because of you.