Brian’sPoems

The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller

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My Routine

...works for me.

I keep my routine
hoping,
praying,
my routine will keep me.

It begins before dawn
with a quick accounting
of place, day, and time
as I return to my senses.

For a few moments
I occupy simultaneous space
in the two worlds where we all live
but are somehow separated
by a thin veil of consciousness
punctured so easily
by sleep,
by faith,
by a simple yes
and the willingness to see
through different eyes.

My routine
provides necessary balance
without rigid regimentation,
so I may love and inhabit,
then pass between,
the profane world I see
and the sacred world I intuit.

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