The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller

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Lake Erie

Another body of water.

If I can find a space
of stillness and solitude
then I begin to notice
the incessant chatter,
like a noisy restaurant
within my mind.

I want all the noise
to fall silent
so that I may sleep
in the pure vacuum
of my being.

My infinite suggestibility
both frightens and disturbs me.
Still I cannot turn off my inputs
without also slowing the gushing
love and light manifest through
the relationships I form.

Being is a state of flow,
like the freight train I see
rambling along the lake shore,
snaking its way along
the places we all belong.

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