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.
OBEHI VESSEL A.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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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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Learning is easy. Unlearning is tricky. The former is knowledge gained. The latter is knowledge gained, recognized as a loss.
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Second chances, are filled with humans hoping for a third.
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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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Time ensures that we heal; not that we forget; In forgetting how a scar came to be, is to silently invite another injury.
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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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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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This year has been heavy. Not meant to be carried alone.
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A fair – weathered friend; I am not. I bring my own sunshine.
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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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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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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 men, choose violence time after time. And in turn, I have seen violence choose them.
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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 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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You can worry, or you can be wise. You cannot be both, at the same time.
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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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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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Be careful out there; I hear humans get killed for wearing the wrong skin.
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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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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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Some days are heavy. Not meant to be carried alone.
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A natural law; ‘forgive them or become them.’ slowly, unnoticeably, surely.
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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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