Brian’sPoems

The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller

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This Is Not the End

For those days
when everything depletes you,
first feasting on your reserves
before eating away your bones,
let me remind you
there is no remedy
but to be consumed.

Those demons,
upon surrender,
become angels
pulling you back into yourself,
back to all of us
in this crazy,
awesome life.

(There is always something missing
in a world designed only by your thinking.
It can never be self-sustaining
and therefore devours you.)

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