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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.