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The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller

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Where Nothing is Forbidden

What is most significant
I take for granted:
the sun,
the moon,
the new day,
my family
and the love between us,
my friends
and our experiences,
my lover
and the bed we share.

For too long,
I have looked through the water
unaware it is the foundation
of my very existence;
from the air I breathe
to the stones in my hands,
to the very fire
igniting my heart
and lighting my eyes.

Somewhere I let go
of that thin thread
tethering me in this vast universe.
And so I came to be
in a land where nothing was forbidden,
and thus from my soul
nothing was required.

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