Posted by Brad Osborne on June 6, 2022 · 3 Comments
As swords are beaten into ploughshares,
So is man wrought by the hammer of cares…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on May 12, 2022 · 17 Comments
If these words cannot make you stay,
Then all I will ask for is one more day…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on May 8, 2022 · 19 Comments
I have freedoms others will never know,
Simply because my skin is white…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on April 28, 2022 · 13 Comments
If I expect nothing of myself,
Then nothing I become…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with change, expectations, failure, fear, goals, growth, hopes, life, Life lessons, obstacles, poem, Poetry, progress, success, time
Posted by Brad Osborne on April 20, 2022 · 12 Comments
Swooping from heaven to pluck us,
From the hell they dropped us in…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on March 23, 2022 · 28 Comments
Feeling once abandoned,
Leaves a permanent stain…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on March 19, 2022 · 22 Comments
I did not want to say a prayer, not those words,
To your God who needed you more than I do…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on March 3, 2022 · 24 Comments
It is hard to see a future,
Unlike the past I have known…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 26, 2021 · 22 Comments
My mind plays tricks on me,
The kind without a laugh,
Spirits haunting memory,
As I walk my solemn path…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on November 20, 2021 · 16 Comments
If morning heralded by rising moon,
And sun made the midnight noon,
If thorns bloomed from petaled stem,
And angels as evil as mortal men…
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