Brian’sPoems

The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller

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Clearheaded

...and witness to the natural harmony

In a dream state
I hastily scrawled red words
into my black notebook.

But now that I’m awake
I cannot remember
the source of my bitterness,
and I won’t allow anger
to write this poem.

Maybe deep sleep is akin
to the eating of a lotus leaf,
that ancient but lost ritual
known as conscious forgetting,
or of allowing the past to pass.

When I refuse to push back,
nothing can push on me.
It simply flows right through.

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