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The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller

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Grasping

I wake today
to find my big questions
are not so much rhetorical
as they are difficult to answer.

Every now and again,
I catch just a glimpse
behind that veil
of what we call reality.
Then I am stunned,
literally gasping for breath,
unable to reconcile
the nakedness of my life
with the illusion I am living.

“What’s wrong?” you say.
“Maybe the questions are much simpler.”

Of course you’re right,
the questions are simple,
and there are no lasting answers,
only the darkness and the light
in between the beauty and nakedness,
along with an indifferent love,
and finally eternal peace.

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