Never give a human the job of making you happy. Some days, they might call you sick. Other days they might call quit.
OBEHI VESSEL A.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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At present, Nations are burning. But, their leaders mistake the ash for snow.
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Ears quick to listen. Lips, slow to speak. I take, so that I may give.
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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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It is the silliness of youth to trust time.
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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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Ran out of time, before we even began. How long will the road not taken be starved of footprints?
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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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No, I’m not one to go in pursuit of happiness. It is common knowledge, is it not? That what is chased after will run.
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Some days are heavy. Not meant to be carried alone.
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Every person I failed to forgive, I became.
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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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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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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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Learning is easy. Unlearning is tricky. The former is knowledge gained. The latter is knowledge gained, recognized as a loss.
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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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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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When you have no money, you’re penniless. When you have no love, you’re poor.
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Fear, is a curtain telling you she’s a door walkthrough.
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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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“No” is such a controversial word. Clear, resounding when uttered by men. By women, Low, muffled. Sounds like “yes.”
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Second chances, are filled with humans hoping for a third.
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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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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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