When you have no money, you’re penniless. When you have no love, you’re poor.en you have no love, you’re poor.
OBEHI VESSEL A.We were purple, one day, we felt whole the next day split apart into red and blue.
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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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Standing between who we are, and who we want to be, is that which we find easiest to be.
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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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“No” is such a controversial word. Clear, resounding when uttered by men. By women, Low, muffled. Sounds like “yes.”
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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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I have seen men, choose violence time after time. And in turn, I have seen violence choose them.
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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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It is the silliness of youth to trust time.
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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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This year has been heavy. Not meant to be carried alone.
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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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Some days are heavy. Not meant to be carried alone.
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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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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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