Morning Bell
...release me.
The new day always comes too often and too early. In the distance just before daylight, I can hear a bell tolling, as if slowly saying, more, more, more. More seems like the truth, but I know it’s really a lie I’ve only been repeating and wanting to believe. Each night I drift off to God knows where, but just before waking I realize I’m in my attic filled with so much junk I don’t need anymore. In the moment I don’t know what to do with all the crap I’ve saved and accumulated, but as I look into the boxes everything just goes away. When I got up this morning, I discovered a truth hidden in one of those boxes I had stored: The purpose of my life is to hold and lessen all the suffering, beginning with my own.
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