I have seen men, choose violence time after time. And in turn, I have seen violence choose them.
OBEHI VESSEL A.This year has been heavy. Not meant to be carried alone.
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Fear is a curtain telling you she’s a door walkthrough.
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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. 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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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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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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Be careful out there; I hear humans get killed for wearing the wrong skin.
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It is the silliness of youth to trust time.
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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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To know more, I must first admit that I know nothing. Only on a blank page, can words be written.
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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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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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Patience is not the ability to wait. It is, how we wait; an attitude so unruffled, that none can tell if we’re waiting or not.
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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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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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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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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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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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Learning is easy. Unlearning is tricky. The former is knowledge gained. The latter is knowledge gained, recognized as a loss.
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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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Past lifetimes do not concern me. Whatever memory succumbs to be forgotten, is one I do not aspire to repeat.
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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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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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A problem ignored, has two outcomes. The illusion that it is gone, and the reality of one problem becoming more.
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Ears quick to listen. Lips, slow to speak. I take, so that I may give.
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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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