Fear is a curtain telling you she’s a door walkthrough.
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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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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Both strong and weak may survive; if neither takes too seriously, the titles of ‘strong’ and ‘weak’.
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A natural law; ‘forgive them or become them.’ slowly, unnoticeably, surely.
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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 have seen humans call for “change” only to bid her go home, and return on a more convenient date.
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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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“No” is such a controversial word. Clear, resounding when uttered by men. By women, Low, muffled. Sounds like “yes.”
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Doubts are powerful. They, not only demand we look again, they tell us what to see.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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‘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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Second chances, are filled with humans hoping for a third.
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Be careful out there; I hear humans get killed for wearing the wrong skin.
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Every person I failed to forgive, I became.
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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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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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At present, Nations are burning. But, their leaders mistake the ash for snow.
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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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And, when it comes to counting our blessings; we humans are all bad at math.
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It is the silliness of youth to trust time.
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It seems to be, that there are dual reasons why justice is rarely given. One, too little evidence. Two, too much.
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