Posted by Brad Osborne on July 19, 2021 · 15 Comments
Is it cloud that falls so gently
When mountain top is kissed
Or does it rise from the valley
This cold and haunting mist
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with choices, choosing your path, destiny, fate, fear, fog, lessons learned, life, mist, perception, poem, Poetry, strict form poetry, unknown
Posted by Brad Osborne on July 11, 2021 · 15 Comments
If I had only known
I would be left alone
Never would I have kissed
Those lips now sorely missed
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with aching, apparition, confusion, distance, fear, ghost, love, poem, poerty, pushed away, relationships, strict form poetry, too close, too fast
Posted by Brad Osborne on June 20, 2021 · 18 Comments
If these words cannot make you stay,
Then all I will ask for is one more day…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with dark, death, fear, hardships, help, helpless, hope, hurt, life, light, pain, poem, Poetry, someone, suicide
Posted by Brad Osborne on June 3, 2021 · 21 Comments
It is just another day,
But it does not feel the same…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with blogger, blogging, concern, consistent, favorite, fear, humor, missing, morning, poem, Poetry, routine, wit, words, worry
Posted by Brad Osborne on May 22, 2021 · 11 Comments
Swooping from heaven to pluck us,
From the hell they dropped us in…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with adrenaline, angels, combat, death, destruction, dust-off, fear, helicopter, pain, poem, Poetry, sleep, thankful, tomorrow, wounds
Posted by Brad Osborne on May 20, 2021 · 22 Comments
I have freedoms others will never know,
Simply because my skin is white…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with black, black lives matter, color, community, fear, freedom, hate, poem, Poetry, privilege, race, racism, relations, society, white
Posted by Brad Osborne on May 15, 2021 · 22 Comments
I know the darkness in which you sit,
The pitch black that swallows all hope…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with alone, dark, death, fear, help, life, lonely, pain, poem, Poetry, scared, spirit, suffering, suicide, unafraid
Posted by Brad Osborne on May 12, 2021 · 23 Comments
I could not say it for the longest time,
Fearing my life by acronym defined…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with combat, death, definition, fear, honesty, life, mental health, past, poem, Poetry, PTSD, stigma, truth, war, warrior
Posted by Brad Osborne on May 6, 2021 · 19 Comments
Your hands will never touch,
All the things I feel…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with actions, fear, feeling, hope, kiss, knowing, little things, love, poem, Poetry, relationships, seeing, touch, undefined, words
Posted by Brad Osborne on April 25, 2021 · 20 Comments
I did not want to say a prayer, not those words,
To your God who needed you more than I do…
Filed under Poetry, Reading for Riders · Tagged with bikers, brother, death, fear, flag, hallowed, hero, life, lost, motorcycles, motorcycling, poem, Poetry, prayer, tears
