The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller
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I Am Overcome
...by the silence.
What must be said
is often unwritten
and rarely spoken.
Therefore we must live
from inside the inevitable truth,
which begins at our birth
and accelerates throughout
our difficult initiations.
From lust and desire,
through feast and famine;
from loss and death,
through long periods
of bitterness and despair,
preceding our return
to innocence.
We must find the sources
of those stories and songs,
which halt and disarm,
rendering us speechless.
There in the deafening silence
we encounter God.