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The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller

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Prayers

They’ll change you.

This poem is another prayer
for all those days
which add up to a lifetime
of prayers spoken,
but mostly unspoken,
in long sighs
and eyes focused
into the middle distance
where uncertainty looms
behind large objects
just out of focus.

I pray myself awake each morning
and then to sleep at night.
I pray for you,
for him, her, them, we.
But most of all I pray for me,
that I may remain open
in both the light and the dark
of my tiny existence
always just beyond
my human comprehension.

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