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.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 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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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 were fully clothed in lies, I was naked in truth. Still, when morning came It was I who survived the cold.
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Be careful out there; I hear humans get killed for wearing the wrong skin.
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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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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 natural law; ‘forgive them or become them.’ slowly, unnoticeably, surely.
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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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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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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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Learning is easy. Unlearning is tricky. The former is knowledge gained. The latter is knowledge gained, recognized as a loss.
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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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We were purple, one day, we felt whole the next day split apart into red and blue.
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Ears quick to listen. Lips, slow to speak. I take, so that I may give.
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