Posted by Brad Osborne on August 18, 2021 · 16 Comments
We are nearly all the same,
But we focus on the difference…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on February 22, 2021 · 20 Comments
For what you say, will fade away,
And what is left, is just what’s done…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on February 11, 2021 · 19 Comments
Do not let my calm demeanor,
Make you for a minute think,
That I am not a man of purpose…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 31, 2021 · 18 Comments
Making snow angels in the dust,
That traces every moment touched…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 30, 2021 · 10 Comments
Oh, how fragile,
A house of glass,
From sea to shining sea…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 23, 2021 · 23 Comments
With all that I could muster,
My flint struck against the steel…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 16, 2020 · 24 Comments
Listen, I know it has been awhile since we talked,
I have long believed you are not there to hear me…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on July 12, 2020 · 8 Comments
An eye towards race, a judging view,
A binary concept of who should love…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 31, 2019 · 14 Comments
If amidst the dry and sandy sea,
They could sit right across from me,
Would we still kill one another,
Or would we have seen a brother.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on September 4, 2019 · 19 Comments
How do we pick our friends? Are they haphazard connections brought about by fate or kismet?
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