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 have seen humans call for “change” only to bid her go home, and return on a more convenient date.
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Ears quick to listen. Lips, slow to speak. I take, so that I may give.
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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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You can worry, or you can be wise. You cannot be both, at the same time.
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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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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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Second chances, are filled with humans hoping for a third.
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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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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 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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‘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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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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Be careful out there; I hear humans get killed for wearing the wrong skin.
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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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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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And, when it comes to counting our blessings; we humans are all bad at math.
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