
I was 17 when I first put my foot on the bare ground. I was coming from the heart of the city, and all I had in my mind was dances, parties, silk, and kisses. I was beautiful and rich. Spoiled. Courted and envied. In a word, I had known all the excess of the privileged life.
I had everything I wanted and, poor me, I really wasn’t aware of my limitation.
Then I met you. You were everything I wasn’t.
You told me that I am your unpolished diamond, perfect just because of its imperfections. And I laughed at you! Between the two of us, I was clearly not the unpolished one!
You took my hand and pulled me into your dirty world, but paradoxically clean in principle. Step by step, I followed you, unconscious, until I got dirty as well.
The way you see the world and life and love became shockingly real to me. It impregnated into me. It became me.
I found myself.
We found each other.
You are my reality, my way, my true love …
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