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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.

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.
OBEHI VESSEL A.

Change Character Hurt Myself
Time ensures that we heal; not that we forget; In forgetting how a scar came to be, is to silently invite another injury.
OBEHI VESSEL A.

Deep Forget Healing Injury Scars Silence Time
You were fully clothed in lies, I was naked in truth. Still, when morning came It was I who survived the cold.
OBEHI VESSEL A.

Cold Lie Morning Myself Naked Survive Truth Yourself
No. I do not wish upon stars, I hear they fall.
OBEHI VESSEL A.

Fall Myself Stars
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.
OBEHI VESSEL A.

Ability Attitude Patience Philosophy Wait
It seems to be, that there are dual reasons why justice is rarely given. One, too little evidence. Two, too much.
OBEHI VESSEL A.

Deep Evidence Justice Reason
Every person I failed to forgive, I became.
OBEHI VESSEL A.

Deep Failed Forgiveness Myself Person
I have felt warmth in lies, and coldness in truth. This is how I know that morality, transcends the physicality of temperatures.
OBEHI VESSEL A.

Cold Deep Lying Moral Myself Philosophy Truth
Ears quick to listen. Lips, slow to speak. I take, so that I may give.
OBEHI VESSEL A.

Lips Listen Myself Quick
Both strong and weak may survive; if neither takes too seriously, the titles of ‘strong’ and ‘weak’.
OBEHI VESSEL A.

Serious Strong Survive Weakness
Some days are heavy. Not meant to be carried alone.
OBEHI VESSEL A.

Alone Carry Hard Time Hope
At present, Nations are burning. But, their leaders mistake the ash for snow.
OBEHI VESSEL A.

Burn Leadership Mistake Nation Present
I have seen humans call for “change” only to bid her go home, and return on a more convenient date.
OBEHI VESSEL A.

Change Herself Home Human Myself See
Never give a human the job of making you happy. Some days, they might call you sick. Other days they might call quit.
OBEHI VESSEL A.

Happiness Human Quit Sick Yourself
Ran out of time, before we even began. How long will the road not taken be starved of footprints?
OBEHI VESSEL A.

Beginning Deep Road Time
Every human carries a heavy past. But the good thing about what can be carried, is that it can also be put down.
OBEHI VESSEL A.

Carry Goodness Heart Human Philosophy

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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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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