Brian’sPoems

The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller

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Even if I Knew

I am the tree
surrounded by forest.
I am a drop of water
awash in the ocean.
I am a grain of sand
windswept in the desert.
I am a window
in a universe made of glass.

Even if I knew the answers
I could not tell them to you.
There is nothing hiding
but what you wish to conceal.
Love will open you
and nothing else.
There is no metaphor
which can substitute for love.

Everything warms to the sun,
but is not the sun.
Even trees fall short of the mountaintop.

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