Posted by Brad Osborne on May 20, 2021 · 22 Comments
I have freedoms others will never know,
Simply because my skin is white…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on February 18, 2021 · 22 Comments
Swaddled in a fledgling nation,
Where brave dead gave her hope…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on February 10, 2021 · 15 Comments
I would say it with a touch of arrogance,
Knowing the freedoms others did not have…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on February 3, 2021 · 24 Comments
They call it “the People’s House”,
But only politicians call it home…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 17, 2021 · 15 Comments
Threadbare the twisted secrets,
Faded in the sun of history,
Old cloth stitched in long days…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on November 26, 2020 · 9 Comments
But life is not so easy this,
A linear chart of time,
A life lived to its fullest intent,
Has always been a climb…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on August 29, 2020 · 16 Comments
Born heavy the locust wood
A hewn heart bleeds no longer
There within a tragic good…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on June 1, 2020 · 22 Comments
Tinted windows block the sun,
Scenery killed for comfort won…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on May 11, 2020 · 24 Comments
Sitting there in the morning air,
Our table graced by your perfume…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on April 8, 2020 · 32 Comments
It’s been a long, cold winter away,
And spring love brings an urgency…
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