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The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller

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Only Just Forgotten

Beam me up, Scotty!

I wake early this morning
because I’m far from home,
but not far from feeling at home
as I drive through a misty forest,
marveling at the fallen granite
broken beneath a hydroelectric dam.

This winding road leads me deeper,
until somewhere within my psyche
I hear my younger voice
urging me closer to the water,
wanting me to get my feet wet
and to once again feel
ice cold water on my skin.

I turn the music up.
Images reappear
of forgotten places,
of people I knew,
of the very first time
I sang along
with these lyrics.

The morning,
the mist,
the natural beauty,
all transport me
to the wonder
only just forgotten.

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