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.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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Fear is a curtain telling you she’s a door walkthrough.
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It is the silliness of youth to trust time.
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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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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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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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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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I have seen men, choose violence time after time. And in turn, I have seen violence choose them.
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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 do not wish upon stars, I hear they fall.
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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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Every person I failed to forgive, I became.
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You can worry, or you can be wise. You cannot be both, at the same time.
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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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Ears quick to listen. Lips, slow to speak. I take, so that I may give.
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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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Standing between who we are, and who we want to be, is that which we find easiest to be.
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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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Some days are heavy. Not meant to be carried alone.
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Be careful out there; I hear humans get killed for wearing the wrong skin.
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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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“No” is such a controversial word. Clear, resounding when uttered by men. By women, Low, muffled. Sounds like “yes.”
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And, when it comes to counting our blessings; we humans are all bad at math.
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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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