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“No” is such a controversial word. Clear, resounding when uttered by men. By women, Low, muffled. Sounds like “yes.”

Obehi Vessel A.

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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Children Deep Light Mistake Myself Pain
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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Force Human Love Myself Philosophy
“No” is such a controversial word. Clear, resounding when uttered by men. By women, Low, muffled. Sounds like “yes.”
OBEHI VESSEL A.

Man Oppression Woman Word
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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Ability Attitude Patience Philosophy Wait
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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Happiness Human Quit Sick Yourself
Past lifetimes do not concern me. Whatever memory succumbs to be forgotten, is one I do not aspire to repeat.
OBEHI VESSEL A.

Forget Life Memories Myself Past
You can worry, or you can be wise. You cannot be both, at the same time.
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Deep Wisdom Worry Yourself
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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Act Kindness Powerful Space
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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Deep Different Goodness Ourselves Skin
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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Cold Deep Lying Moral Myself Philosophy Truth
No. I do not wish upon stars, I hear they fall.
OBEHI VESSEL A.

Fall Myself Stars
Be careful out there; I hear humans get killed for wearing the wrong skin.
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Care Human Kill Oppression Race Skin Wrong
A fair – weathered friend; I am not. I bring my own sunshine.
OBEHI VESSEL A.

Friendship Sunshine
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.

Bright Eyes Herself Hurt Light Ourselves Truth
A natural law; ‘forgive them or become them.’ slowly, unnoticeably, surely.
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Forgiveness Law Slow
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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Doubt Growth Improvement Philosophy
Both strong and weak may survive; if neither takes too seriously, the titles of ‘strong’ and ‘weak’.
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Serious Strong Survive Weakness
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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Darkness Hands Human Ourselves Sound Time
A problem ignored, has two outcomes. The illusion that it is gone, and the reality of one problem becoming more.
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Ignorance Illusion Job Problem Reality
Learning is easy. Unlearning is tricky. The former is knowledge gained. The latter is knowledge gained, recognized as a loss.
OBEHI VESSEL A.

Easy Knowledge Learning Loss Recognition
I have seen humans call for “change” only to bid her go home, and return on a more convenient date.
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Change Herself Home Human Myself See
This year has been heavy. Not meant to be carried alone.
OBEHI VESSEL A.

Alone Carry Company Hard Time Togetherness
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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Carry Goodness Heart Human Philosophy
We were purple, one day, we felt whole the next day split apart into red and blue.
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Feeling Oneself Togetherness
Every person I failed to forgive, I became.
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Deep Failed Forgiveness Myself Person
When one door closes, another opens.’ Yet, in-between lies a wait persuasive enough to make many go through windows.
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Deep Enough Oneself Success Wait
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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Deep Heart Broken Live Lost

“No” is such a controversial word. Clear, resounding when uttered by men. By women, Low, muffled. Sounds like “yes.”

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