When one door closes, another opens.’ Yet, in-between lies a wait persuasive enough to make many go through windows.
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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“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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Ears quick to listen. Lips, slow to speak. I take, so that I may give.
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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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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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And, when it comes to counting our blessings; we humans are all bad at math.
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A natural law; ‘forgive them or become them.’ slowly, unnoticeably, surely.
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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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Doubts are powerful. They, not only demand we look again, they tell us what to see.
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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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Be careful out there; I hear humans get killed for wearing the wrong skin.
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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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Ran out of time, before we even began. How long will the road not taken be starved of footprints?
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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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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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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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You can worry, or you can be wise. You cannot be both, at the same time.
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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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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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Fear is a curtain telling you she’s a door walkthrough.
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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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‘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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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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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 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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