Brian’sPoems

The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller

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Blue Room

Everything is bluish
within this blue room.
The carpet is blue,
the woodwork is painted blue,
the bed sheets are blue,
and the lamp shade is blue.
Even the fluorescent light
has a blue hue.

I have so much
to think about
which makes me blue,
like my painful memories
which seem to create
a path leading me nowhere.

It’s not my being nowhere
or even my memories
causing this queasy feeling.
It’s my surrender,
that awkward exchange
of action for inaction,
the bitter taming
of my seething anger.

This blue room,
this blue room,
this blue room tells me
to let my anger go
and be filled with love.

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