Do Not Love Half Lovers by Khalil Gibran

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Do not love half lovers
Do not entertain half friends
Do not indulge in works of the half talented
Do not live half a life
And do not die a half death

If you choose silence, then be silent
When you speak, do so until you are finished
Do not silence yourself to say something
And do not speak to be silent If you accept,
Then express it bluntly
Do not mask it

If you refuse then be clear about it
For an ambiguous refusal is but a weak acceptance

Do not accept half a solution
Do not believe half-truths
Do not dream half a dream
Do not fantasize about half hopes

Half a drink will not quench your thirst
Half a meal will not satiate your hunger
Half the way will get you nowhere
Half an idea will bear you no results

Your other half is not the one you love
It is you in another time yet in the same space
It is you when you are not

Half a life is a life you didn’t live,
A word you have not said
A smile you postponed
A love you have not had
A friendship you did not know

To reach and not arrive
Work and not work
Attend only to be absent
What makes you a stranger to them closest to you and they strangers to you

The half is a mere moment of inability but you are able
For you are not half a being
You are a whole that exists to live a life not half a life

 

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