Posted by Brad Osborne on September 11, 2022 · 16 Comments
I have been away for so long,
That apologies feel unworthy…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on September 5, 2022 · 17 Comments
Let me be a welcomed sign,
On the path so hard to find…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on August 20, 2022 · 23 Comments
There are many things one can hang their hat on as being worthy of the time we are given.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on July 24, 2022 · 11 Comments
And we then, well-reminded,
To our future we are blinded…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on September 12, 2021 · 20 Comments
Let me be a welcomed sign,
On the path so hard to find…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on July 15, 2021 · 20 Comments
And we then, well-reminded,
To our future we are blinded…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on April 4, 2021 · 12 Comments
But it is hard to grow in your shade,
Privy to the mistakes you made…
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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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