My soulmate and brother is no more

My precious brother Ralpho you are no longer here to share anything with.

I miss you more than words can say.

As kids all we had was each other but our lives seem to have been continuously torn apart. First it was Dadda, you, our sister Juenne and me as the eldest.

When I was just 11 and he was only 35, our precious Dadda was taken away by a cruel motorcycle accident. Our lives in shambles we clung to each other. It was not long however before we were torn apart yet again. We never knew where our mother was, Dadda was mother and father rolled into one.

When he went away Juenne and I were sent to Convent orphanages but happily you went to St. Aloysius College, Galle. When we grew up and got our lives back together, you and I always had a special bond, that certain togetherness that only a brother and sister share.

You married Cynthia, had two kids, worked at Barney Raymond’s where Billy and you specialized in terrorizing people. Oh, the tricks you both played.

Parting time came again when you left for the UK with your family.

Juenne and her family left for Australia and I was here alone. No distance, could separate that bond of love and care till God called you home and I am now left here alone because on the last day of the same month, God took Juenne also home.

Rest in peace, precious brother of my heart, till we meet on that beautiful shore.