The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller

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Fraudulent Deity

She makes me feel like a deity,
albeit fraudulent.
She seeds my mind with metaphysical germs.
They grow wild on fertile ground.
She reaps, nay steals, the harvest from my heart,
and I am empty.
Seduced,
I love her stinging wonder.
She fears my illimitable spirit
and refuses, refuses, to acknowledge my human desires and frailties.
I guess she will not make love to gods...