Brian’sPoems

The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller

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Growing Pains

...never end

What stretches me?

Everything stretches me.

I say it again:
Everything stretches me.

Middle age
Growing older
Going on
Uncertainty
Marriage
Friendships
Dying
Living with death
Too much
Too little
Eating and drinking
And drinking
My lack of control
Having too much control
Winning
Losing
Forgetting
Remembering
Not being able to let go
Letting go of too much
Meaninglessness
No creativity
Emptiness
No limits
No sound
No light
No all of those things
that make me remember
I’m alive.

And at the end,
there being no end,
only beginning.

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