The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller

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The Dance of Love

What is it with those brown eyes
beyond whose dark borders I cannot see?
And what of those chiseled eyebrows
stolen from Guy Fawkes and made feminine?

I focus on your luscious red lips
always at the ready to part into smile.
I can see the love God poured into your soul,
spilling out in your desire to connect.

You say almost nothing,
still your silence grabs me by the lapels.
I reach for your shoulders
and you fall effortlessly into my arms.

Here we are in naked embrace.
The sun and wind have marked us.
Time is taking her toll
as God circles overhead.

This is our moment,
the fiery collision which created the Universe,
the salty tears which filled the oceans,
the dance, the dance, the dance,
of love.