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The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller

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A Love Feast

...sustains our rapture.

The past is not a bone collector.
Rather, it’s a giving spirit
who runs a lending library
containing your favorite songs,
along with the memories of when
you first heard those chords
and your heart leapt up to dance.

Abandon your past
and there will be nothing
for you to bring along,
into this present moment.

There will come a day
when you are invited to share
everything you stored away
at a great love feast.

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