How abstract we humans sound, when we say these are dark times. As though it isn’t in our hands that paint our times.
OBEHI VESSEL A.Doubt has evolved. From a ‘what if I can’t?’ To a ‘what if I can? And it doesn’t last?’
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You can worry, or you can be wise. You cannot be both, at the same time.
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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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Ears quick to listen. Lips, slow to speak. I take, so that I may give.
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A lot of my mistakes, are birthed by curiosity. Like a child, drawn to fire; I came for the light and found pain instead.
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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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And now, we look back at what was normal, and we find that normal isn’t always good or right; No. Normal, is whatever has been spent with us, the longest time. And that in itself is not a valid reason for it to stay.
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It is the silliness of youth to trust time.
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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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“No” is such a controversial word. Clear, resounding when uttered by men. By women, Low, muffled. Sounds like “yes.”
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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 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 natural law; ‘forgive them or become them.’ slowly, unnoticeably, surely.
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And, when it comes to counting our blessings; we humans are all bad at math.
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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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Doing good and being good; are two different things. The first is a shirt we put on, take off. The latter is our skin.
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