Doing good and being good; are two different things. The first is a shirt we put on, take off. The latter is our skin.
OBEHI VESSEL A.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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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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No, I’m not one to go in pursuit of happiness. It is common knowledge, is it not? That what is chased after will run.
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When one door closes, another opens.’ Yet, in-between lies a wait persuasive enough to make many go through windows.
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A natural law; ‘forgive them or become them.’ slowly, unnoticeably, surely.
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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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We were purple, one day, we felt whole the next day split apart into red and blue.
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You can worry, or you can be wise. You cannot be both, at the same time.
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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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And, when it comes to counting our blessings; we humans are all bad at math.
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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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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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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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Be careful out there; I hear humans get killed for wearing the wrong skin.
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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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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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This year has been heavy. Not meant to be carried alone.
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Time ensures that we heal; not that we forget; In forgetting how a scar came to be, is to silently invite another injury.
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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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A fair – weathered friend; I am not. I bring my own sunshine.
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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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To know more, I must first admit that I know nothing. Only on a blank page, can words be written.
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It is the silliness of youth to trust time.
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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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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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