Everyone claims they want the truth. Just not in all her bright entirety. We’d rather she visit in dim shades of light, that won’t hurt our eyes.
OBEHI VESSEL A.Past lifetimes do not concern me. Whatever memory succumbs to be forgotten, is one I do not aspire to repeat.
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We were purple, one day, we felt whole the next day split apart into red and blue.
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How abstract we humans sound, when we say these are dark times. As though it isn’t in our hands that paint our times.
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Past lifetimes do not concern me. Whatever memory succumbs to be forgotten, is one I do not aspire to repeat.
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Second chances, are filled with humans hoping for a third.
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Both strong and weak may survive; if neither takes too seriously, the titles of ‘strong’ and ‘weak’.
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“No” is such a controversial word. Clear, resounding when uttered by men. By women, Low, muffled. Sounds like “yes.”
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‘Why are we here?’ I inquired of my body, spirit, and soul. ‘Here to do whatever feels good.’ Said the first. ‘Here to do what feels good.’ Said the second. ‘Here to choose.’ Said the third. ‘Between both.’
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To know more, I must first admit that I know nothing. Only on a blank page, can words be written.
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This year has been heavy. Not meant to be carried alone.
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Patience is not the ability to wait. It is, how we wait; an attitude so unruffled, that none can tell if we’re waiting or not.
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I no longer ask humans, for a definition of love. For, they tend to force on her, the traits of those who have either treated them well or not at all.
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A problem ignored, has two outcomes. The illusion that it is gone, and the reality of one problem becoming more.
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I have felt warmth in lies, and coldness in truth. This is how I know that morality, transcends the physicality of temperatures.
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I have seen men, choose violence time after time. And in turn, I have seen violence choose them.
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Every human carries a heavy past. But the good thing about what can be carried, is that it can also be put down.
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