03/11/2025
🅼🆈 🅳🅴🅰🆁 🅳🅰🆅🅸🅳
It feels so strange to be missing you. We used to talk almost everyday our calls would go on for hours, filled with laughter, silly jokes, random stories, and business ideas. What hurts the most is knowing how hard life had been for both of us, and just when things were starting to get better, you had to leave. You left a gap that can never be filled.
Man, I’m so proud to have been your little brother. From the time we were kids, you always looked out for me. You were the creative one, making cars out of clay and wire, teaching me tricks to catch birds, always building or creating something new. I still laugh thinking about how you’d charge my friends just to make them toy cars. You were a born hustler, but those days were filled with so much joy and laughter.
And when you cooked, everyone wanted a taste, you were that good. We had to learn all kinds of chores: cooking, mopping, going to the maize mill, fetching water, the things people in my culture said were for girls. But you never cared. You’d tell me, “That’s what makes us cooler.” You were right.
We were different, you were loud, funny, always the center of attention. I was the quieter one. But you always read the room and had this way of protecting me, even from myself.
Sure, we argued sometimes, but it never lasted. You always said brothers should be best friends, and that’s what we were. I used to brag about that because not many brothers are as close as we were. You always had my back, even when I wasn’t around. You’d put me first, even when your heartbeat was on the line.
We loved each other, and we knew it, we said it. Now I have so many questions that will never be answered. Why so soon? Now I have to look after our mother n little brother too. All the love I had for you, I’ll give to your kids. I’ll make sure they’re good. I will treat them as my own, it’s the greatest gift you’ve left for our family, and when I can’t do it alone, I’ll ask for help. Thank you to everyone that has supported our family. It takes a community to raise a kid.
Damn, man. I miss you so much.
Davie💔🕊
