Posted by Brad Osborne on August 28, 2022 · 17 Comments
There is nothing more honorable,
Then being of service to another…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on August 15, 2022 · 19 Comments
What if no one would ever know,
What evil would eager tempt,
What good would go undone…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on August 15, 2021 · 21 Comments
What if no one would ever know,
What evil would eager tempt,
What good would go undone…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on September 24, 2020 · 21 Comments
The antiquity of binary thought,
Love bound to gender and the hate it brought…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on February 12, 2020 · 11 Comments
It is hard to pay it forward,
In a lost world of me and mine,
Like a handful of pearls tossed toward,
An undeserving, greedy swine.
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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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Posted by Brad Osborne on October 13, 2019 · 10 Comments
If power argued with money
I wonder who would win
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Posted by Brad Osborne on September 13, 2019 · 5 Comments
How do you kill a series? Well, it is a lot simpler than you may think.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on September 5, 2019 · 2 Comments
A blessed life has shaped me
In so many ways
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Posted by Brad Osborne on August 19, 2019 · 15 Comments
This is not the type of person I ever intended to become but, being honest with myself, it is certainly who I am.
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