Posted by Brad Osborne on December 12, 2022 · 10 Comments
Go,
Don’t look back,
You, no need to see the years walked away…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 8, 2022 · 11 Comments
Scars do not protect a heart,
Old wounds are oft renewed…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on November 28, 2022 · 11 Comments
Memories of you cling to me like rain on a window,
Muddied by the dust of days in a purity lost…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on August 11, 2022 · 14 Comments
I know the chill,
Skin and cold steel,
Yet colder still,
The pain I now feel…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on July 14, 2022 · 4 Comments
I give it to you,
Bloody and beating,
This love so blue,
Still retreating…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on June 11, 2022 · 7 Comments
Here the dark hangs like ancient tapestries,
The dank rot of old woven wishes,
Fill nostrils with a stench of onyx air.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on May 23, 2022 · 11 Comments
Thoughts fall like bombs,
Rippling the plane of my existence…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on May 12, 2022 · 17 Comments
If these words cannot make you stay,
Then all I will ask for is one more day…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on May 1, 2022 · 15 Comments
My tears wrote a love song,
On the letter you left behind…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on April 25, 2022 · 9 Comments
These feelings are strong,
But so hard to explain…
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