The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller

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We All Stream

We all stream through this world,
maybe pooling here and there
before streaming on,
and maybe even going underground
or evaporating into the air,
forming again as the morning dew
weighing heavily on a leaf,
or traveling elsewhere in a big cloud,
then falling to earth again
in large, oblong drops of water
splashing on the rocks,
stirring up the mud,
and finally pooling again,
becoming the headwaters
of yet another stream.