Brian’sPoems

The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller

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More Than Human

The tie that binds...

The world
is more than human.
It bears repeating
so I won’t forget:
This world
is so much more
than human.

When the poet says
cold spreads like frost
across a window,
I can feel it.

When I pick up a fallen leaf
and begin to smile,
admiring its perfection,
I can see it.

When I can’t sleep
and my stomach turns,
when I bury my knowing
and it sprouts as wonder,
when I tell everything I love you
and profoundly mean it,
I am more than human.

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