Be careful out there; I hear humans get killed for wearing the wrong skin.
OBEHI VESSEL A.A problem ignored, has two outcomes. The illusion that it is gone, and the reality of one problem becoming more.
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At present, Nations are burning. But, their leaders mistake the ash for snow.
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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 problem ignored, has two outcomes. The illusion that it is gone, and the reality of one problem becoming more.
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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 felt warmth in lies, and coldness in truth. This is how I know that morality, transcends the physicality of temperatures.
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And, when it comes to counting our blessings; we humans are all bad at math.
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Ears quick to listen. Lips, slow to speak. I take, so that I may give.
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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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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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‘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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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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This year has been heavy. Not meant to be carried alone.
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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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It is the silliness of youth to trust time.
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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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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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You can worry, or you can be wise. You cannot be both, at the same time.
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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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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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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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To know more, I must first admit that I know nothing. Only on a blank page, can words be written.
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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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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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I have seen men, choose violence time after time. And in turn, I have seen violence choose them.
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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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Doubts are powerful. They, not only demand we look again, they tell us what to see.
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