When one door closes, another opens.’ Yet, in-between lies a wait persuasive enough to make many go through windows.
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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Doubts are powerful. They, not only demand we look again, they tell us what to see.
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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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At present, Nations are burning. But, their leaders mistake the ash for snow.
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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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We were purple, one day, we felt whole the next day split apart into red and blue.
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And, when it comes to counting our blessings; we humans are all bad at math.
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You can worry, or you can be wise. You cannot be both, at the same time.
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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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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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Fear is a curtain telling you she’s a door walkthrough.
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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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Ran out of time, before we even began. How long will the road not taken be starved of footprints?
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Both strong and weak may survive; if neither takes too seriously, the titles of ‘strong’ and ‘weak’.
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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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Be careful out there; I hear humans get killed for wearing the wrong skin.
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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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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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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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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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This year has been heavy. Not meant to be carried alone.
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Some days are heavy. Not meant to be carried alone.
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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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A natural law; ‘forgive them or become them.’ slowly, unnoticeably, surely.
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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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It is the silliness of youth to trust time.
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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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