“No” is such a controversial word. Clear, resounding when uttered by men. By women, Low, muffled. Sounds like “yes.”
OBEHI VESSEL A.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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I have seen humans call for “change” only to bid her go home, and return on a more convenient date.
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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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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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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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It is the silliness of youth to trust time.
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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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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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Every person I failed to forgive, I became.
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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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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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Second chances, are filled with humans hoping for a third.
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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.
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A natural law; ‘forgive them or become them.’ slowly, unnoticeably, surely.
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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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And, when it comes to counting our blessings; we humans are all bad at math.
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