Brian’sPoems

The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller

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Visit Me

I’ll be here.

One day away from home
is one too many,
especially when no sense of home
exists in mind or heart.

When I was young
I scorned home bodies
and denied my own desire
to build a home.

Then I lived,
as all seem to live,
in a world of movement
but no ground,
in a world of intoxication
but no wine.

Part of discovering home
has been finding my feet,
planting them in the Earth,
then opening my eyes wide
and allowing the world
to come visit me.

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