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.
OBEHI VESSEL A.Second chances, are filled with humans hoping for a third.
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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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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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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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Doubts are powerful. They, not only demand we look again, they tell us what to see.
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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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We were purple, one day, we felt whole the next day split apart into red and blue.
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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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Ears quick to listen. Lips, slow to speak. I take, so that I may give.
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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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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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Ran out of time, before we even began. How long will the road not taken be starved of footprints?
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Be careful out there; I hear humans get killed for wearing the wrong skin.
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A natural law; ‘forgive them or become them.’ slowly, unnoticeably, surely.
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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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Learning is easy. Unlearning is tricky. The former is knowledge gained. The latter is knowledge gained, recognized as a loss.
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