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The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller

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Love Set Free

Don’t ya know to love is to be free?

I can’t remember
where to start this poem.

I knew,
or thought I knew,
at several intervals
throughout last night
and into this morning...

Oh yeah!
Now I remember.
I wanted to stop believing
the past had somehow been better
than the present I see before me.

And I wanted to stop
spreading this lie to young people,
so that with a love set free
they may create a world
larger, more inclusive, sustainable,
and equal in beauty
to any that has ever existed.

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