Brian’sPoems

The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller

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The Truth Sits Alone

I want everything
to be all one thing.
There must be some order
amidst all this disorder,
though I cannot see it clearly
through all my confusion,
and the countless layers
of my human being.

Somewhere,
deep inside
of something
(or is it in Someone?),
lies a particle
called truth,
both indivisible
and infinite.

Truth sits alone
- precarious,
siloed,
incapable of becoming
something greater,
within its perfect
and pretentious
singularity.

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