Doing good and being good; are two different things. The first is a shirt we put on, take off. The latter is our skin.
OBEHI VESSEL A.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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This year has been heavy. Not meant to be carried alone.
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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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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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Learning is easy. Unlearning is tricky. The former is knowledge gained. The latter is knowledge gained, recognized as a loss.
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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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When one door closes, another opens.’ Yet, in-between lies a wait persuasive enough to make many go through windows.
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A fair – weathered friend; I am not. I bring my own sunshine.
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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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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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Ears quick to listen. Lips, slow to speak. I take, so that I may give.
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At present, Nations are burning. But, their leaders mistake the ash for snow.
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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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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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Be careful out there; I hear humans get killed for wearing the wrong skin.
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