The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller
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Forgotten Bridge
There is a bridge.
Children cross it every day.
It goes between
the visible
and invisible.
On the other side
lives your imagination.
It can see
what the eye cannot,
can smell
scents only dogs know,
and can speak
using the language of soul.
Don’t you find it enlivening
to look at something
looking back at you?
If you live long enough
you’ll eventually come
to a crossroads called,
What the hell happened?
Make a turn in either direction.
This is the road often mistaken
as memory lane.
Follow it anyway.
It leads you back
to that forgotten bridge.