I have seen humans call for “change” only to bid her go home, and return on a more convenient date.
OBEHI VESSEL A.We were purple, one day, we felt whole the next day split apart into red and blue.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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No. I do not wish upon stars, I hear they fall.
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Every person I failed to forgive, I became.
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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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“No” is such a controversial word. Clear, resounding when uttered by men. By women, Low, muffled. Sounds like “yes.”
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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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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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A natural law; ‘forgive them or become them.’ slowly, unnoticeably, surely.
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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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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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Fear is a curtain telling you she’s a door walkthrough.
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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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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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It is the silliness of youth to trust time.
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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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Ears quick to listen. Lips, slow to speak. I take, so that I may give.
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Second chances, are filled with humans hoping for a third.
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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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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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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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