I have seen humans call for “change” only to bid her go home, and return on a more convenient date.
OBEHI VESSEL A.It is the silliness of youth to trust time.
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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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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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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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A problem ignored, has two outcomes. The illusion that it is gone, and the reality of one problem becoming more.
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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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Fear is a curtain telling you she’s a door walkthrough.
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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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‘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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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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Second chances, are filled with humans hoping for a third.
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No. I do not wish upon stars, I hear they fall.
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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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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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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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To know more, I must first admit that I know nothing. Only on a blank page, can words be written.
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There is no such thing as ‘little’ acts of kindness. Every kind act, is grand powerful. Meant to take up space.
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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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We were purple, one day, we felt whole the next day split apart into red and blue.
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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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At present, Nations are burning. But, their leaders mistake the ash for snow.
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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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When one door closes, another opens.’ Yet, in-between lies a wait persuasive enough to make many go through windows.
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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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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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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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