Time ensures that we heal; not that we forget; In forgetting how a scar came to be, is to silently invite another injury.
OBEHI VESSEL A.Both strong and weak may survive; if neither takes too seriously, the titles of ‘strong’ and ‘weak’.
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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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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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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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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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Standing between who we are, and who we want to be, is that which we find easiest to be.
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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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“No” is such a controversial word. Clear, resounding when uttered by men. By women, Low, muffled. Sounds like “yes.”
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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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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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At present, Nations are burning. But, their leaders mistake the ash for snow.
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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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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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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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And, when it comes to counting our blessings; we humans are all bad at math.
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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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