Posted by Brad Osborne on November 27, 2022 · 10 Comments
Death has waited too long,
To win in fatal sport,
Life is more of a sprint,
Time is always short…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on November 23, 2022 · 12 Comments
I have more in common with a murderer than a minister,
As the red, white, and blue wraps around the sinister…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on October 29, 2022 · 12 Comments
Forces pushing us to final finite end,
Where we learn what our lives have spun…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on October 16, 2022 · 17 Comments
You say it won’t,
I know it will,
It always does…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on October 5, 2022 · 13 Comments
The far-off tolling of a bell,
Breaks the silence where quiet dwells…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on September 19, 2022 · 13 Comments
It is not darkness that I see,
In my life destined by brevity…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on August 20, 2022 · 23 Comments
There are many things one can hang their hat on as being worthy of the time we are given.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on August 10, 2022 · 26 Comments
I travel now, a different path,
In a world you cannot see…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on August 1, 2022 · 13 Comments
His love unbound by time,
Drawn as a circle, not a line…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on July 24, 2022 · 11 Comments
And we then, well-reminded,
To our future we are blinded…
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