What is upendo ?

This is not my work. All credit goes to J-Roc on Yahoo Answers.

Love is waking up every morning and that person is the first thing on your mind. It's when wewe would do anything to see them smile and it breaks your moyo so much to see them cry that wewe cry with them. It's when wewe want them to be happy even if it's not with you. upendo is when every song wewe hear reminds wewe of them and every place wewe see makes wewe think of somewhere you've been with them. It's knowing that wewe want to spend every dakika of every saa of every siku of every mwaka for the rest of your life trying to make that person...

He woke up with a jump.

Dammit. Not again.

He had been dreaming about her. It happened every time he thought he was getting better. It seemed like she didn’t want to be forgotten. She kept finding her way into his mind. He sat up in the dark, shaking. He knew he wouldn’t be able to sleep in the kitanda for a while again. Too many memories there. Too many thoughts of her wrapped around him under the covers. He couldn’t handle it. Once she got into his head, it took weeks for him to drive her out again.

He went out into the jikoni and got some water. Then he stared at his reflection in the...