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The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller

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My Reality

Are there things I just know?
How so?
There are so many truths
I don’t remember learning,
but must be written in my DNA.

Why are some new places familiar,
while others are foreign?
Why does certain weather
affect me predictably?
Why do I resist my instincts?
And how deep are my intuitions?

There seems to be no end
to what a mirror could show me,
if I’d only let go my firm grip
on what I choose to see,
and on all those things
I mistakenly call my reality.

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