Posted by Brad Osborne on March 8, 2021 · 21 Comments
The pens of writers that came before,
The lives that did not look like mine…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 26, 2020 · 14 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 December 23, 2020 · 21 Comments
I am a black spectre,
A swift and silent wraith,
Shadowless and unseen…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 9, 2020 · 19 Comments
Even those with perfect sight,
See the world through a lens,
The light that meets our eyes,
Bent by fortune and friends…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 3, 2020 · 16 Comments
How sad,
My only beauty,
Splashed ink on some page…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on November 9, 2020 · 18 Comments
If untouched is the heart,
Harboring nothing to fear,
Then what is the need,
For shedding a tear?
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Posted by Brad Osborne on July 27, 2020 · 8 Comments
The love you saw within my eyes,
Was guarded by practiced lies…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on July 6, 2020 · 17 Comments
Safer to just contemplate,
Then speak the truth, seal my fate…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on May 25, 2020 · 15 Comments
To the victor is left the history,
Triumphant words recorded…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 23, 2020 · 10 Comments
For my love remains,
Weathered but untethered,
Beaten, but yet unbowed,
Saved as if some treasure,
And buried just as deep.
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