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.
OBEHI VESSEL A.Be careful out there; I hear humans get killed for wearing the wrong skin.
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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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Some days are heavy. Not meant to be carried alone.
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Every person I failed to forgive, I became.
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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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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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“No” is such a controversial word. Clear, resounding when uttered by men. By women, Low, muffled. Sounds like “yes.”
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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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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 seems to be, that there are dual reasons why justice is rarely given. One, too little evidence. Two, too much.
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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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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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No. I do not wish upon stars, I hear they fall.
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Be careful out there; I hear humans get killed for wearing the wrong skin.
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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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When one door closes, another opens.’ Yet, in-between lies a wait persuasive enough to make many go through windows.
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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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You can worry, or you can be wise. You cannot be both, at the same time.
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A natural law; ‘forgive them or become them.’ slowly, unnoticeably, surely.
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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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‘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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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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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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I have seen men, choose violence time after time. And in turn, I have seen violence choose them.
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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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We were purple, one day, we felt whole the next day split apart into red and blue.
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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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