Brian’sPoems

The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller

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It's All Here

Open wide...

Look around.
Everything in this place
is loving us.

Awaken and see
the locksmith called love
opening the forbidden constructs
of our limited perception,
while spreading a fertilizer
called possibility.

Love is the raw matter
of all creation.
It delivers not only keys,
but the too heavy
and seemingly impossible stuff
requiring time and patience
to learn and use.

It’s all here
within our reach.
Let’s grab hold of it
with whatever hands we have.

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