The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller

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Backfire

I told you I loved you so often
it lost all meaning.

Three simple words,
one tiny declarative,
passionate as rhythm and a red dress,
solid as a granite boulder,
painful as the longest, most difficult day.

The I love yous I sent,
not always the lightest gifts,
wrapped as they were in my needs,
changed me forever as they were returned.

So I opened them for myself.