Posted by Brad Osborne on March 23, 2022 · 28 Comments
Feeling once abandoned,
Leaves a permanent stain…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with abandonment, closed, distance, emotional pain, fear, heart, intimacy, life, love, pain, poem, Poetry, pushing, relationships, stay
Posted by Brad Osborne on March 9, 2022 · 26 Comments
Tears fall like liquid diamonds,
Into the palms of dirty hands…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with daughters, distance, happy, home, humanity, life, living, pain, poem, Poetry, refugees, society, survival, tears, war
Posted by Brad Osborne on January 6, 2022 · 24 Comments
Go,
Don’t look back,
You, no need to see the years walked away…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with ending, heartache, leaving, life, Life lessons, looking back, losing, lost love, love, pain, poem, Poetry, relationships, strict form poetry, unrequited
Posted by Brad Osborne on January 2, 2022 · 16 Comments
Scars do not protect a heart,
Old wounds are oft renewed…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with beaten, dreams, failure, heart, life, love, loving, pain, poem, Poetry, relationships, risk, safety, strict form poetry, wounded
Posted by Brad Osborne on January 1, 2022 · 24 Comments
Respect is not given, its earned,
Wisdom is in living, not learned…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with character, charity, creed, hope, knowledge, life, Life lessons, love, pain, poem, Poetry, respect, strict form poetry, time, wisdom
Posted by Brad Osborne on December 18, 2021 · 17 Comments
Memories of you cling to me like rain on a window,
Muddied by the dust of days in a purity lost…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with life, memories, pain, permanent, poem, Poetry, purpose, reminder, scars, stain, stained, strict form poetry, tattoo, unwelcome, vows
Posted by Brad Osborne on August 12, 2021 · 12 Comments
I know the chill,
Skin and cold steel,
Yet colder still,
The pain I now feel…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with broken, broken heart, cold, heartache, lost love, love, loving, pain, poem, Poetry, silence, soul, steel, suffering, wounds
Posted by Brad Osborne on July 26, 2021 · 18 Comments
Thoughts fall like bombs,
Rippling the plane of my existence…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with beauty, bombs, crashing, dreams, fall, gravity, over-thinking, pain, poem, Poetry, random, silence, thinking, thoughts, unanswered
Posted by Brad Osborne on June 20, 2021 · 18 Comments
If these words cannot make you stay,
Then all I will ask for is one more day…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with dark, death, fear, hardships, help, helpless, hope, hurt, life, light, pain, poem, Poetry, someone, suicide
Posted by Brad Osborne on May 22, 2021 · 11 Comments
Swooping from heaven to pluck us,
From the hell they dropped us in…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with adrenaline, angels, combat, death, destruction, dust-off, fear, helicopter, pain, poem, Poetry, sleep, thankful, tomorrow, wounds
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