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.
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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“No” is such a controversial word. Clear, resounding when uttered by men. By women, Low, muffled. Sounds like “yes.”
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When one door closes, another opens.’ Yet, in-between lies a wait persuasive enough to make many go through windows.
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Be careful out there; I hear humans get killed for wearing the wrong skin.
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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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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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Every person I failed to forgive, I became.
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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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Some days are heavy. Not meant to be carried alone.
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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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Fear is a curtain telling you she’s a door walkthrough.
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There is no such thing as ‘little’ acts of kindness. Every kind act, is grand powerful. Meant to take up space.
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Second chances, are filled with humans hoping for a third.
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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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Doubts are powerful. They, not only demand we look again, they tell us what to see.
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Ran out of time, before we even began. How long will the road not taken be starved of footprints?
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No. I do not wish upon stars, I hear they fall.
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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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You were fully clothed in lies, I was naked in truth. Still, when morning came It was I who survived the cold.
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I used to envy the sun, for having seen it all. I was wrong. Left with nothing to see, how bored she must be.
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When you have no money, you’re penniless. When you have no love, you’re poor.en you have no love, you’re poor.
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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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Past lifetimes do not concern me. Whatever memory succumbs to be forgotten, is one I do not aspire to repeat.
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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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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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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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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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