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The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller

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Let the New Year Come

The good years pass by swiftly,
the bad ones not quickly enough.
Even before the ball drops
somewhere far away from here,
I feel a creeping uncertainty
about the ambiguous new year.
It all seems like little more
than a reset to the calendar;
the pointless incrementing
of some arbitrary order.

What would happen
if we skipped a year?

I pray to slowly let go of order.
Let me leave it to the machines of uniformity,
which will go on generating our invisible labyrinth
long after I’m reabsorbed into the Mystery.

So for now I rest my head
and allow my heart to fall open,
while I whisper,
let the new year come.

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