Posted by Brad Osborne on October 27, 2021 · 22 Comments
Do not cry for me,
I sleep in the bed I made…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on September 8, 2021 · 14 Comments
How is it the color of one’s skin,
Somehow defines what is held within…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on August 26, 2021 · 27 Comments
If given some say by would be fate,
Change things in my life, a second chance,
An opportunity to skew my current state,
And in some small way my life enhance.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on March 11, 2021 · 12 Comments
I found the rabbit hole,
Looking to belong…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on June 20, 2020 · 17 Comments
Do not cry for me,
I sleep in the bed I made…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with acceptance, choices, concern, consequences, crying, karma, life, Life lessons, no tears, poem, Poetry, sadness, strict form poetry, strong, worry
Posted by Brad Osborne on June 18, 2020 · 27 Comments
How is it the color of one’s skin,
Somehow defines what is held within…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on June 15, 2020 · 13 Comments
Hate cleaves the mortal soul,
Like water cuts through stone…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on June 4, 2020 · 23 Comments
Kiss me like,
Love is your madness,
Infect my world,
Drive me insane.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 1, 2020 · 9 Comments
If perception is our Mother of truth,
If our world is built on what we perceive,
Then we give all the power we wield,
To those things we choose to believe.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 16, 2019 · 13 Comments
This is not how we were made,
To cast others in our shade,
Treatment based on some earned grade,
Regardless of dues they paid.
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