Ran out of time, before we even began. How long will the road not taken be starved of footprints?
OBEHI VESSEL A.I have seen men, choose violence time after time. And in turn, I have seen violence choose them.
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When you have no money, you’re penniless. When you have no love, you’re poor.en you have no love, you’re poor.
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It is the silliness of youth to trust time.
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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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No. I do not wish upon stars, I hear they fall.
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Ears quick to listen. Lips, slow to speak. I take, so that I may give.
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Some days are heavy. Not meant to be carried alone.
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A problem ignored, has two outcomes. The illusion that it is gone, and the reality of one problem becoming more.
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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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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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A natural law; ‘forgive them or become them.’ slowly, unnoticeably, surely.
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At present, Nations are burning. But, their leaders mistake the ash for snow.
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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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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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‘Why are we here?’ I inquired of my body, spirit, and soul. ‘Here to do whatever feels good.’ Said the first. ‘Here to do what feels good.’ Said the second. ‘Here to choose.’ Said the third. ‘Between both.’
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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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I have seen men, choose violence time after time. And in turn, I have seen violence choose them.
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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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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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It seems to be, that there are dual reasons why justice is rarely given. One, too little evidence. Two, too much.
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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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Doubts are powerful. They, not only demand we look again, they tell us what to see.
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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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You can worry, or you can be wise. You cannot be both, at the same time.
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And, when it comes to counting our blessings; we humans are all bad at math.
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Every person I failed to forgive, I became.
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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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