Brian’sPoems

The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller

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Reverence Falls

...like soft rain in the dark...

All the same stories
I’ve been telling myself
about you,
about those years
now passed behind us
like dust blown down
an empty road –

maybe they aren’t all true.

Who will ever know
what happened back there?

Somehow
I became humble
when suddenly faced
by what really matters.

My anger tries to remind me
I never really mattered to you.

Everything we left behind
is still hot to the touch.

Foremost, I remember
our bottomless need.

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