Time ensures that we heal; not that we forget; In forgetting how a scar came to be, is to silently invite another injury.
OBEHI VESSEL A.You can worry, or you can be wise. You cannot be both, at the same time.
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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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A problem ignored, has two outcomes. The illusion that it is gone, and the reality of one problem becoming more.
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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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Learning is easy. Unlearning is tricky. The former is knowledge gained. The latter is knowledge gained, recognized as a loss.
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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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Past lifetimes do not concern me. Whatever memory succumbs to be forgotten, is one I do not aspire to repeat.
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Fear is a curtain telling you she’s a door walkthrough.
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Second chances, are filled with humans hoping for a third.
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Every person I failed to forgive, I became.
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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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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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Toxicity isn’t always a harsh tone or a bruise. Often it’s a “this is who I am.” Often it’s a “I’ll change” Void of when.
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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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At present, Nations are burning. But, their leaders mistake the ash for snow.
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Be careful out there; I hear humans get killed for wearing the wrong skin.
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No. I do not wish upon stars, I hear they fall.
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Standing between who we are, and who we want to be, is that which we find easiest to be.
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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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Ears quick to listen. Lips, slow to speak. I take, so that I may give.
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Doubts are powerful. They, not only demand we look again, they tell us what to see.
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I used to believe that living is doing, moving, getting. But, there is life in staying still. A bird is a bird even when she isn’t flying.
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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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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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‘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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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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