When you have no money, you’re penniless. When you have no love, you’re poor.en you have no love, you’re poor.
OBEHI VESSEL A.When you have no money, you’re penniless. When you have no love, you’re poor.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Be careful out there; I hear humans get killed for wearing the wrong skin.
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Past lifetimes do not concern me. Whatever memory succumbs to be forgotten, is one I do not aspire to repeat.
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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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A natural law; ‘forgive them or become them.’ slowly, unnoticeably, surely.
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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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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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Every person I failed to forgive, I became.
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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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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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Ran out of time, before we even began. How long will the road not taken be starved of footprints?
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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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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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Second chances, are filled with humans hoping for a third.
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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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A fair – weathered friend; I am not. I bring my own sunshine.
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I have seen humans call for “change” only to bid her go home, and return on a more convenient date.
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Doubts are powerful. They, not only demand we look again, they tell us what to see.
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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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You can worry, or you can be wise. You cannot be both, at the same time.
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And, when it comes to counting our blessings; we humans are all bad at math.
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