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The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller

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A Plea for Love

What would happen
if I let my hair go gray,
and then left the beaches
with their summer palms,
to drive back to some city
where the songbirds are mute
and the trees drop their color
right before the frozen rains,
when everything becomes winter?

And what would happen
if I let go of order?
Where is it chaos would lead me?
(Chaos being God of course.)

I wish to be done with perfection.
Gray hair is nothing but a privilege.
It comes at no cost with the gift of years
and does not preclude one’s ability
to touch their toes,
or even better,
to make love.

Oh how helpless I am to do anything
which doesn’t want to be done!
There are too many holes to fill,
which are forever wanting to be holes.

(This poem is a plea for love.)

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