Retrouvailles

By: Yahya Aliyu

10 minutes, 10 days, 10 years.

For every meeting, there must be a parting.

A reminder of the impermanence of life; 

Of its dreamlike and fleeting reality. 

But parting gives us the chance to meet anew;

To experience that unique joy of reuniting.

It is what the french understood as retrouvailles:

“to find something again.”

Only after losing something can we fully understand its value,

The temporary loss experienced through partings,

can thus be seen as gifts;

Teaching us to value our relations with the time we have left. 

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