Posted by Brad Osborne on October 2, 2022 · 13 Comments
Flesh has born in body torn,
Epitaphs in sullen grey,
A feast is spread before us,
Table filled with what we say…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on October 1, 2022 · 11 Comments
The fire’s coals groan a slow death,
Their warmth long gone…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on September 29, 2022 · 12 Comments
Speak not of sorrowed seasons,
Untold the many reasons…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on September 28, 2022 · 12 Comments
It seems nothing requires proof,
And all we ever do is fight…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on September 26, 2022 · 13 Comments
How is distance measured,
When like the moon,
Thoughts of you break upon my shore…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on September 24, 2022 · 5 Comments
Why must the lucid be so elusive,
And why what I see so foreign to me…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on September 19, 2022 · 13 Comments
It is not darkness that I see,
In my life destined by brevity…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on September 15, 2022 · 23 Comments
The sorrows and sins of our lives fall like rain,
When cloudy skies and fate darken ahead…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on September 14, 2022 · 10 Comments
This brief interlude in time,
Must be born in depth and soul…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on September 10, 2022 · 17 Comments
How is it the color of one’s skin,
Somehow defines what is held within…
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