Posted by Brad Osborne on November 26, 2020 · 9 Comments
But life is not so easy this,
A linear chart of time,
A life lived to its fullest intent,
Has always been a climb…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on July 19, 2020 · 23 Comments
The sorrows and sins of our lives fall like rain,
When cloudy skies and fate darken ahead…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on July 11, 2020 · 18 Comments
Why must the lucid be so elusive,
And why what I see so foreign to me…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on July 4, 2020 · 29 Comments
Who do I hear talking right now,
Repeating other people’s words,
Said to you throughout the years…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on May 30, 2020 · 35 Comments
She cries,
Salted pain hangs from her lashes,
And falls upon her light blue smock,
To mix with the sweat of long days.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 6, 2020 · 21 Comments
The dawn has called me to write,
But the words just won’t seem to come…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on September 1, 2019 · 6 Comments
The me I hide
The me inside
Posted by Brad Osborne on July 18, 2019 · 3 Comments
It has been a long hard fight
This battle to stay young
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Posted by Brad Osborne on June 14, 2019 · Leave a Comment
Words thrown at a thought,
like darts at a board…