Posted by Brad Osborne on May 2, 2023 · 14 Comments
If amidst the dry and sandy sea,
They could sit right across from me,
Would we still kill one another,
Or would we have seen a brother.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on April 26, 2023 · 13 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 March 22, 2023 · 9 Comments
Each small step we take in life,
Leads to an unseen abyss
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Posted by Brad Osborne on March 4, 2023 · 9 Comments
My emotions spill into the world around me,
A tributary to the river of humanity…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on February 15, 2023 · 7 Comments
Reason born by enlightenment,
Tethered to an instinctual animal…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on February 6, 2023 · 10 Comments
Do not ask me what I have seen,
For I have seen it all…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on February 5, 2023 · 6 Comments
Tears fall like liquid diamonds,
Into the palms of dirty hands…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on February 1, 2023 · 9 Comments
We are but a speck of ink,
On a billion pages of history…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 23, 2023 · 5 Comments
So, burn it to the ground,
If that is your great desire…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 5, 2023 · 9 Comments
Freezing attitudes harden you to the world
Your rigidity ever apparent in your icy state
Filed under General · Tagged with acceptance, admiration, annoyance, appearance, different states, drops, humanity, life, people, perception, prose, raindrop, river, snow, water
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