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The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller

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Forgotten Truth

She explodes in my mind
like a new thought,
or better yet like a forgotten truth,
buried so deeply - who knows where? -
that it took a star map,
or rather her brown eyes and kind smile,
for me to find it again.

I know her as I know God,
completely and not at all.
Still she is not my belief,
she is my experience,
the very conversation of cells
made possible by love,
the official language
of an infinite Universe.

I can hardly speak
my mouth is so full of crickets
and of superlatives for her beauty,
for the wonderful space
she occupies inside of me.
Don’t we now know death
by another name?

I am not the I
I once was,
or the I
I will be,
because you kissed me.

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