DO NOT Love Half Lovers, Khalil Gibran, Inspirational Poem, Read By Actress *NO VISUALS

Kahlil Gibran (Arabic: جبران خليل جبران ) was a Lebanese-American artist, poet, and writer.
Born in the town of Bsharri in modern-day Lebanon (then part of Ottoman Mount Lebanon), as a young man he emigrated with his family to the United States where he studied art and began his literary career. In the Arab world, Gibran is regarded as a literary and political rebel. His romantic style was at the heart of a renaissance in modern Arabic literature, especially prose poetry, breaking away from the classical school. In Lebanon, he is still celebrated as a literary hero.
He is chiefly known in the English-speaking world for his 1923 book The Prophet, an early example of inspirational fiction including a series of philosophical essays written in poetic English prose. The book sold well despite a cool critical reception, gaining popularity in the 1930s and again, especially in the 1960s counterculture.
Gibran is the third best-selling poet of all time, behind Shakespeare and Lao-Tzu.

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.