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.Doubts are powerful. They, not only demand we look again, they tell us what to see.
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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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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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Never give a human the job of making you happy. Some days, they might call you sick. Other days they might call quit.
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Fear is a curtain telling you she’s a door walkthrough.
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Second chances, are filled with humans hoping for a third.
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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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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, 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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Doubts are powerful. They, not only demand we look again, they tell us what to see.
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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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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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And, when it comes to counting our blessings; we humans are all bad at math.
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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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A problem ignored, has two outcomes. The illusion that it is gone, and the reality of one problem becoming more.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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You can worry, or you can be wise. You cannot be both, at the same time.
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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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To know more, I must first admit that I know nothing. Only on a blank page, can words be written.
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A natural law; ‘forgive them or become them.’ slowly, unnoticeably, surely.
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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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It is the silliness of youth to trust time.
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