Ran out of time, before we even began. How long will the road not taken be starved of footprints?
OBEHI VESSEL A.Learning is easy. Unlearning is tricky. The former is knowledge gained. The latter is knowledge gained, recognized as a loss.
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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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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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And, when it comes to counting our blessings; we humans are all bad at math.
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Fear is a curtain telling you she’s a door walkthrough.
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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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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 one door closes, another opens.’ Yet, in-between lies a wait persuasive enough to make many go through windows.
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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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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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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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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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Every person I failed to forgive, I became.
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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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Second chances, are filled with humans hoping for a third.
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Some days are heavy. Not meant to be carried alone.
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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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Doubts are powerful. They, not only demand we look again, they tell us what to see.
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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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Ears quick to listen. Lips, slow to speak. I take, so that I may give.
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No. I do not wish upon stars, I hear they fall.
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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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This year has been heavy. Not meant to be carried alone.
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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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Both strong and weak may survive; if neither takes too seriously, the titles of ‘strong’ and ‘weak’.
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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 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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