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.
OBEHI VESSEL A.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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This year has been heavy. Not meant to be carried alone.
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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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Ears quick to listen. Lips, slow to speak. I take, so that I may give.
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Second chances, are filled with humans hoping for a third.
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You can worry, or you can be wise. You cannot be both, at the same time.
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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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It is the silliness of youth to trust time.
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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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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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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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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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We were purple, one day, we felt whole the next day split apart into red and blue.
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Every person I failed to forgive, I became.
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Be careful out there; I hear humans get killed for wearing the wrong skin.
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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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A fair – weathered friend; I am not. I bring my own sunshine.
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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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It seems to be, that there are dual reasons why justice is rarely given. One, too little evidence. Two, too much.
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Standing between who we are, and who we want to be, is that which we find easiest to be.
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Some days are heavy. Not meant to be carried alone.
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No. I do not wish upon stars, I hear they fall.
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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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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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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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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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Learning is easy. Unlearning is tricky. The former is knowledge gained. The latter is knowledge gained, recognized as a loss.
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