Brian’sPoems

The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller

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At the Crossroads

A poem about going down to the crossroads...

The next task
right after you thought
you’d finished all your tasks,
is to seek those relationships
with men,
with women,
with yourself,
with nature,
with anyone and anything,
that might offer you
some clues to your soul work,
and a glimpse of the transcendent
through such great pain
and even greater joy.

Only then
will you have arrived
at a destination
called Life,
where the crossroads read
Human and Holy,
and where a bus is waiting
to take you to that place
you can repay all the favors
with the heartfelt love you’ve found.

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