Brian’sPoems

The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller

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The Mutability of Everything

There on the shelf is a picture of you -
you at a time more certain,
certainly younger and oblivious
to the mutability of everything.

Then you were afraid of touching death,
lest your hands turn green.
Funny now how death’s gray hands
are reaching out for you.

No matter what this world has become
within your own precious mind,
take pictures and
make some more memories.
Feel the warmth of the sun,
the strength it conjures in your body
to get up and move,
to climb and dance.
Touch everything
wanting to be touched,
and at last allow yourself
to be touched and transformed.

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