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Bẹ́yíọ̀ku
<p>"As long as this one lives."</p><p>Stay!</p><p>Not because today is beautiful.</p><p>Stay because today is not forever.</p><p>Stay because pain has lied before.</p><p>Stay because darkness has an awful habit of introducing itself as eternity. But Darkness isn't eternity so Stay.</p><p><br/></p><p>Listen.</p><p>There are versions of you that have not arrived yet.</p><p>Laughter still searching for your mouth.</p><p>Peace still learning how to locate you.</p><p>Love still carrying your name in places you have never been.</p><p>Please do not leave before they find you.</p><p><br/></p><p>I know.</p><p>Some nights become Heavy, Borderless., Endless.</p><p>Hope feels too expensive.</p><p>Breathing feels too ordinary to count as courage. But it actually does take a lot to keep breathing.</p><p>Sometimes courage is embarrassingly small.</p><p><br/></p><p>Opening your eyes. Drinking water.</p><p>Answering tomorrow with your heartbeat instead of your certainty.</p><p>That counts.</p><p><br/></p><p>Bẹ́yíọ̀kú.</p><p>As long as this one lives, possibility is still alive.</p><p>As long as this one lives, the story refuses to end where the pain started.</p><p>As long as this one lives, morning still has permission to arrive.</p><p>So if all you can do today is live, Kindly live.</p><p><br/></p><p>If all you can do is stay, Please stay.</p><p><br/></p><p>If all you can carry is one more sunrise, Carry that.</p><p>And Maybe one more sunset.</p><p><br/></p><p>Bẹ́yíọ̀kú.</p><p>As long as this one lives... There is hope.</p><p><br/></p>
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