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.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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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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To know more, I must first admit that I know nothing. Only on a blank page, can words be written.
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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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A natural law; ‘forgive them or become them.’ slowly, unnoticeably, surely.
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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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Ran out of time, before we even began. How long will the road not taken be starved of footprints?
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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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Ears quick to listen. Lips, slow to speak. I take, so that I may give.
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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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Some days are heavy. Not meant to be carried alone.
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Be careful out there; I hear humans get killed for wearing the wrong skin.
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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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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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It is the silliness of youth to trust time.
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