Brian’sPoems

The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller

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As Only Love Can

God, speak to me as only love can!
Fill my soul with the desire to serve.
I offer you my surrendered life
that you may animate my body and mind
bringing forth the gifts I have to offer.

This acceptance of my humble life,
disguised as dying,
comes slowly
in fits and starts,
then again suddenly!

As with the spinning winds of a hurricane,
the devastation becomes
my humanity laid bare,
and out of the muck
I am reborn.

I have said and written a lot.
These are gifts I will not deny.
Yet now I hope it is my deeds and actions
which will define my remaining life.

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