Brian’sPoems

The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller

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Bend in the Road

A prayer for courage on my journey...

What good follows from counting
each of my gray hairs?
Will there again come a time
when I have none?

Yesterday is now gone,
though it has certainly left
a few sharp things behind.
Still I have no illusions.
The past is the past
and the only foresight
I can carry with me
for that bend in the road ahead,
is the ambiguous meaning
yesterday has planted deep
in my head, heart and gut.

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