Brian’sPoems

The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller

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Come to Silence

A poem about the transformational power of silence...

I look for the raucous
voices suddenly gone silent
in this noisy world.
Perhaps they’ve awoken
to the soul within everything,
becoming one
with this one life.

The dream spirit arrives
at a most suggestible moment,
urging us into a forest.
We may enter by a paved road,
but we emerge barefooted
through a thicket.

A person coming to silence
is a curiosity within a world
blinded by the speed of light.
Yet as our kinetic being
reaches an infinite mass,
we all come to silence.

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