Posted by Brad Osborne on March 18, 2023 · 15 Comments
I told you everything would be okay,
And we both knew that was untrue…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on February 18, 2023 · 10 Comments
Leave me alone,
To make peace with the past,
To quiet the ghosts…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on February 9, 2023 · 15 Comments
Joy does not have our address,
It cannot find us by itself…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 2, 2023 · 10 Comments
I must purge,
Throw off the negative,
In a shuffling of the mind…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on November 2, 2022 · 11 Comments
Our lives are filled with things to be done,
Chores to be worked and errands to run…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on May 4, 2022 · 14 Comments
I told you everything would be okay,
And we both knew that was untrue…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with battle, brother, burial, death, funeral, life, loss, Marines, peace, poem, Poetry, promise, rest, vow, war
Posted by Brad Osborne on March 26, 2022 · 34 Comments
Leave me alone,
To make peace with the past,
To quiet the ghosts…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with alone, burden, evil, finding peace, fire, ghost, haunted, history, mental health, pain, past, peace, poem, Poetry, solitude
Posted by Brad Osborne on March 16, 2022 · 13 Comments
Joy does not have our address,
It cannot find us by itself…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with Amazon, different, finding your path, finding yourself, found, happiness, how-to, joy, life, Life lessons, looking, peace, poem, Poetry, searching
Posted by Brad Osborne on January 29, 2022 · 14 Comments
I must purge,
Throw off the negative,
In a shuffling of the mind…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with dead, exhausting, free form poetry, happiness, life, meditation, negativity, new, peace, poem, Poetry, purging, renewal, stagnant, stale
Posted by Brad Osborne on December 9, 2021 · 15 Comments
Oh, mercy lay your hands on me,
A wretched soul not yet set free
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