Posted by Brad Osborne on February 7, 2022 · 23 Comments
I don’t know how I would have found you,
What planets would have needed to align…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 26, 2022 · 16 Comments
Humility be damned, I need your vote!
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 23, 2021 · 19 Comments
I watch the world curl into itself,
As streets empty from the rush…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 12, 2021 · 18 Comments
Plus, it explained why I was so much more attractive than the rest of the family.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 1, 2021 · 15 Comments
Hard to sleep the night before.
Always harder, not knowing.
With the rising sun we’ll leave,
I wonder where we’re going.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on October 13, 2021 · 15 Comments
It seems nothing requires proof,
And all we ever do is fight…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on September 30, 2021 · 19 Comments
It is not darkness that I see,
In my life destined by brevity…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on September 29, 2021 · 20 Comments
I wanted nothing more than to see my brother eaten by a bear.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on June 19, 2021 · 16 Comments
I cannot tell you to stop living,
Quell the need for the things you do…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on June 2, 2021 · 21 Comments
Distance is only space,
And I am never letting go…
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