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A fair – weathered friend; I am not. I bring my own sunshine.

Obehi Vessel A.

How abstract we humans sound, when we say these are dark times. As though it isn’t in our hands that paint our times.
OBEHI VESSEL A.

Darkness Hands Human Ourselves Sound Time
A problem ignored, has two outcomes. The illusion that it is gone, and the reality of one problem becoming more.
OBEHI VESSEL A.

Ignorance Illusion Job Problem Reality
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.
OBEHI VESSEL A.

Deep Happiness Knowledge Myself Run
At present, Nations are burning. But, their leaders mistake the ash for snow.
OBEHI VESSEL A.

Burn Leadership Mistake Nation Present
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.

Deep Different Goodness Ourselves Skin
Learning is easy. Unlearning is tricky. The former is knowledge gained. The latter is knowledge gained, recognized as a loss.
OBEHI VESSEL A.

Easy Knowledge Learning Loss Recognition
Never give a human the job of making you happy. Some days, they might call you sick. Other days they might call quit.
OBEHI VESSEL A.

Happiness Human Quit Sick Yourself
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.
OBEHI VESSEL A.

Force Human Love Myself Philosophy
Both strong and weak may survive; if neither takes too seriously, the titles of ‘strong’ and ‘weak’.
OBEHI VESSEL A.

Serious Strong Survive Weakness
And, when it comes to counting our blessings; we humans are all bad at math.
OBEHI VESSEL A.

Bad Blessing Human Mathematics Ourselves
Every human carries a heavy past. But the good thing about what can be carried, is that it can also be put down.
OBEHI VESSEL A.

Carry Goodness Heart Human Philosophy
You can worry, or you can be wise. You cannot be both, at the same time.
OBEHI VESSEL A.

Deep Wisdom Worry Yourself
No. I do not wish upon stars, I hear they fall.
OBEHI VESSEL A.

Fall Myself Stars
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.
OBEHI VESSEL A.

Deep Heart Broken Live Lost
Time ensures that we heal; not that we forget; In forgetting how a scar came to be, is to silently invite another injury.
OBEHI VESSEL A.

Deep Forget Healing Injury Scars Silence Time
A lot of my mistakes, are birthed by curiosity. Like a child, drawn to fire; I came for the light and found pain instead.
OBEHI VESSEL A.

Children Deep Light Mistake Myself Pain

A fair – weathered friend; I am not. I bring my own sunshine.

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