Posted by Brad Osborne on October 22, 2020 · 17 Comments
It is like drowning in the night,
Ebony shades pulled against right…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on August 13, 2020 · 20 Comments
We hand them a world in which little has changed.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on March 4, 2020 · 27 Comments
Leave behind no unshed tear,
No regret, no unfaced fear…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on February 29, 2020 · 16 Comments
The thoughts we think in our own mind,
Be it ill fate or happiness,
The things to which we are resigned.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on October 1, 2019 · 5 Comments
We are each given a journal at birth
On which we write our lives
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Posted by Brad Osborne on September 15, 2019 · 7 Comments
Steady life passes to the left
Memories now curled
Past a million words and yet
A mere peek into my world
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Posted by Brad Osborne on June 3, 2019 · 5 Comments
I am gone now,
but do not be sad.
I have lived my life.
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