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The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller

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Amazing Fruit

What has happened
to your summer promises?
Are they forgotten,
or simply set aside
to become Autumn noes?

Take a deep breath.
Follow this rambling thought.
Perhaps it means nothing
to let go your promises
as you turn away from the sun.

You need the darkness,
just as a seed needs darkness.
Dew falls at night
and your soul requires moisture.
A wet soul is a living soul,
one that can grow again
in the Spring.

As the noes take root
they become yesses,
which always bear
the most amazing fruit.

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