The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller

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The Funeral

There’s no second hand on digital clocks,
no tick-tock to remind you of your beating heart,
just the cool passing of time,
and the random alerts from your phone
implanting in your subconscious the message:
keep moving.

What if you were here for a moment.
What if I was here too.
What if we just sat here amidst all the stuff,
these things standing in for memories,
with this feeling of ambiguous loss.