Brian’sPoems

The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller

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Fix Everything

Holding the tension with love...

This poem won’t fix everything,
though the intention to fix
helps to move my pen.

A day like today,
after a difficult yesterday,
goes agonizingly slow,
in seconds and centimeters,
one deep breath to the next.

I feel sadness,
I feel regret.
I feel a bit lost,
yet can recognize
I acted with integrity,
spoke my truth,
and must now allow
the consequences
to find me.

I can see more clearly
at a great distance.
Therefore I wait patiently,
do and say little,
even when I witness
the struggling of others
and want to rescue them.

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