Brian’sPoems

The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller

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Everything Will Be Okay

Everything will be okay.
I repeat these words often.
And if I can’t muster the strength,
I look elsewhere
to my time-trusted sources
of reassurance.

It ain’t easy -
this life.
I’m usually too busy,
to stop and to shore-up
my foundations.
Most days I’m like Kong -
climbing a tower to nowhere,
and flailing at planes
while deflecting their fire...

The sun has just arrived at my window
and finds me sitting quietly
with all my dead friends and relatives.
Don is laughing at me,
as he always did,
when I became too serious.

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