Brian’sPoems

The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller

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I Can Handle It

I can handle it.
Yet in the space between those words
lingers great doubt.

I’ve grown too old
to see any romance in death.
It is a passage
beyond my senses,
beyond my understanding,
beyond the point of no return.

Faith.
I have to repeat it.
Faith.

For when the road becomes bumpy,
I forget I don’t know the way
and am only following
to where I’m being led.

The prophet tells me:

Drink the wine before it becomes vinegar.
Remember your strength and experience.
Let love set your heart on fire,
so it will keep you warm in the night.

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