Posted by Brad Osborne on July 19, 2021 · 15 Comments
Is it cloud that falls so gently
When mountain top is kissed
Or does it rise from the valley
This cold and haunting mist
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Posted by Brad Osborne on July 18, 2021 · 17 Comments
How was I to know, that the tears that flow,
Were just a river of liquid lies…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on July 17, 2021 · 17 Comments
Anyone can steer when the seas are calm,
And I pray your days filled with breezes just…
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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 July 14, 2021 · 19 Comments
I am not aimless,
I am simply an ebb and flow…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on July 10, 2021 · 12 Comments
Wooden fingers snap syncopated beats,
As sparks waft into the air like fireflies
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Posted by Brad Osborne on July 8, 2021 · 16 Comments
Oh, mercy lay your hands on me
A wretched soul not yet set free
Proud soldier with unbent knee
A good death is all I beg of thee
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Posted by Brad Osborne on June 28, 2021 · 20 Comments
Witnessed by angelic eyes,
A loving son still survives…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on June 27, 2021 · 16 Comments
For the first twenty years of my life,
I was taught not to turn on the switch…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on June 26, 2021 · 15 Comments
And once I am gone,
I will not hear,
All the words that come too late…
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