You were fully clothed in lies, I was naked in truth. Still, when morning came It was I who survived the cold.
OBEHI VESSEL A.Both strong and weak may survive; if neither takes too seriously, the titles of ‘strong’ and ‘weak’.
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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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A natural law; ‘forgive them or become them.’ slowly, unnoticeably, surely.
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No. I do not wish upon stars, I hear they fall.
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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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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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“No” is such a controversial word. Clear, resounding when uttered by men. By women, Low, muffled. Sounds like “yes.”
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Second chances, are filled with humans hoping for a third.
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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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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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We were purple, one day, we felt whole the next day split apart into red and blue.
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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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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 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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Fear is a curtain telling you she’s a door walkthrough.
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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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