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The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller

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Becoming Timeless

There’s always
a little more time;
an extra day,
another hour,
thirty more minutes,
a couple of seconds.

And then that’s it.
Time’s up!

But don’t worry.
You’ll never run out of time
while the time is running out of you.
Each and every heavy breath
warms the air,
then turns a page in the book
of your life.

Timeless is what you are becoming
when you lend yourself
to the wind,
to the rock,
to the tree,
to your neighbor,
to this day.

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