The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller
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Newton's Cradle
For every action, there is...
Why is it
when I push,
you resist,
and when you push,
I resist?
This great energy
embodied in our being
actively imposes itself,
or passively holds the line,
over and over again
trillions of times each day,
all while keeping our world
in a precarious stalemate.
It took only one step
for me to realize,
what I resist persists.
But only after the twelfth step
did I come to realize
that by letting go of my will,
an infinite energy
would flow through me.