The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller

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Mood Swings

High moods, but slow steps,
longing for the time when I know what’s next.
Filled with joy and then comes rage,
can’t see the stars until I’m on stage.

Just when I think I’ve calmed myself down,
my blood boils and my feet move the ground.
My life is difficult ’cause I make it that way,
still I can’t stand the fuckers that live for today.

Shock surges when I analyze my feelings.
If I acted on instinct I would bring down the buildings.
Yet with control I suppress my primal urges,
but what of those who can’t, all Earth’s human scourges?

I am no different…I tell myself so;
only that way can I make my little mind grow.
Solemn, stern, stolid, all bone,
if I don’t learn to love, I’ll die all alone.