Brian’sPoems

The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller

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Tell Me Who

Could it be Rube Goldberg?

Who was it that leapt
into the ocean of non-existence
and loudly declared,
I can bloom here!

Who first breathed air
into the suffocating void,
then coughed clouds into
the new azure sky?

Whose tears gave us oceans?
Whose wet paint brush
dripped all over everything?
Who threw mud in the fire,
filling our world with sentient beings?

Without whom or what
would we not be sitting here,
lustfully dreaming about our world
so lovingly brought into existence?

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