Posted by Brad Osborne on March 31, 2021 · 10 Comments
My tears wrote a love song,
On the letter you left behind…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 14, 2021 · 15 Comments
I give it to you,
Bloody and beating,
This love so blue,
Still retreating…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 3, 2021 · 21 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 30, 2020 · 12 Comments
Scars do not protect a heart,
Old wounds are oft renewed…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 28, 2020 · 14 Comments
Respect is not given, its earned,
Wisdom is in living, not learned…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 12, 2020 · 9 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 October 19, 2020 · 23 Comments
I could not be the person you wanted,
And with every tear you cried…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on October 18, 2020 · 14 Comments
In hopes left from what will,
Pain comes from the knowing…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on September 30, 2020 · 12 Comments
Decaying scent to what has died,
The smell of salt within our tears…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on August 17, 2020 · 18 Comments
You stare at me white and unblinking,
Waiting to see what I am thinking…
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