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The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller

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Eternity Next to a Rock in the Desert

I remember
the first time waking up,
feeling alone
but not lonely,
surrounded by the pregnant silence,
feeling a dry breeze
cool but not cold,
everywhere things,
but not enemies,
time buried in the rocks
standing guard in the shadows
silhouetted by the dawning light.

Everything
everything
everything
right there
in that moment
and since
has filled
the growing ocean
called my consciousness.

In the time it takes
for the sea to become
the desert graveyard of her children,
God blinks
and the Universe expands.

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