Posted by Brad Osborne on August 1, 2021 · 29 Comments
I wrote this piece on April 4, 2020 at the onset of the Covid pandemic. Some of the thoughts and feelings I captured then have changed and, sadly, some have not.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on April 8, 2021 · 15 Comments
Slavery does not always come with chains,
The sad practice to this day remains…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on February 15, 2021 · 11 Comments
There, in long orderly rows,
The entire world lain bare…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on October 24, 2020 · 18 Comments
It was not all that long ago,
When an offered hand,
Was the measure of a man…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on September 10, 2020 · 16 Comments
I don’t blame you,
The digging is hard work,
And this old rock,
Bears little ore to sell…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on August 22, 2020 · 18 Comments
Were wrapped in greedy wishes,
And fingers crossed on hands…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 17, 2019 · 20 Comments
From darkened rooms and little troll holes,
The intolerant are given roles,
And speak their lines of displeasured rage,
From behind thick curtains just off stage.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 16, 2019 · 13 Comments
This is not how we were made,
To cast others in our shade,
Treatment based on some earned grade,
Regardless of dues they paid.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on July 16, 2019 · 1 Comment
Freezing attitudes harden you to the world
Your rigidity ever apparent in your icy state
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