Ears quick to listen. Lips, slow to speak. I take, so that I may give.
OBEHI VESSEL A.Ran out of time, before we even began. How long will the road not taken be starved of footprints?
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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 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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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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Past lifetimes do not concern me. Whatever memory succumbs to be forgotten, is one I do not aspire to repeat.
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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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A natural law; ‘forgive them or become them.’ slowly, unnoticeably, surely.
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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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Ran out of time, before we even began. How long will the road not taken be starved of footprints?
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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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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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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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Doubts are powerful. They, not only demand we look again, they tell us what to see.
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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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