It is the silliness of youth to trust time.
OBEHI VESSEL A.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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A problem ignored, has two outcomes. The illusion that it is gone, and the reality of one problem becoming more.
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No. I do not wish upon stars, I hear they fall.
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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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“No” is such a controversial word. Clear, resounding when uttered by men. By women, Low, muffled. Sounds like “yes.”
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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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Be careful out there; I hear humans get killed for wearing the wrong skin.
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Some days are heavy. Not meant to be carried alone.
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At present, Nations are burning. But, their leaders mistake the ash for snow.
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Every person I failed to forgive, I became.
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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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When one door closes, another opens.’ Yet, in-between lies a wait persuasive enough to make many go through windows.
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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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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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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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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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