Every human carries a heavy past. But the good thing about what can be carried, is that it can also be put down.
OBEHI VESSEL A.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.
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Ears quick to listen. Lips, slow to speak. I take, so that I may give.
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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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And, when it comes to counting our blessings; we humans are all bad at math.
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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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Fear is a curtain telling you she’s a door walkthrough.
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Never give a human the job of making you happy. Some days, they might call you sick. Other days they might call quit.
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Time ensures that we heal; not that we forget; In forgetting how a scar came to be, is to silently invite another injury.
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No, I’m not one to go in pursuit of happiness. It is common knowledge, is it not? That what is chased after will run.
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Second chances, are filled with humans hoping for a third.
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I have seen humans call for “change” only to bid her go home, and return on a more convenient date.
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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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What’s lost, can be found. What’s broken, may be fixed. But what lives in denial of either of these will remain as it is.
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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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Spiritual or religious. Which will you be? Society, asks of me. Inscribe my name on the list. I said, of which has more compassion in it.
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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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