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The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller

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Compromise Corner

Time for me to get along with myself...

I now see things
like my insecurity,
or perhaps more euphemistically,
my lack of imagination,
when considering
the myriad possibilities
for how and where
I might live
my life.

The word possibility
seems limitless
until I try to reduce it
to a recipe for living.
It then becomes the food
my soul spits out
while complaining bitterly,
“Too bland!”

I hear you my soul!
And I hear you too my ego!
The place I wish to live
is where you both intersect.

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