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.
OBEHI VESSEL A.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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This year has been heavy. Not meant to be carried alone.
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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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‘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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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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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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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 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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You can worry, or you can be wise. You cannot be both, at the same time.
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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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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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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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I have seen humans call for “change” only to bid her go home, and return on a more convenient date.
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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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When one door closes, another opens.’ Yet, in-between lies a wait persuasive enough to make many go through windows.
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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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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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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” is such a controversial word. Clear, resounding when uttered by men. By women, Low, muffled. Sounds like “yes.”
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A fair – weathered friend; I am not. I bring my own sunshine.
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At present, Nations are burning. But, their leaders mistake the ash for snow.
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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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Standing between who we are, and who we want to be, is that which we find easiest to 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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