I heard an iron bell in my mind.

Someone clanged it, and the sound chimed out

For what seemed to be a very long time.

But the silver bell beside it

Barely resonated.

I closed my eyes, and likewise pondered time ,

And pondered the silver bell.

I’m shivering in rapt attention

At its mystic spontaneity.

The cosmos wants to speak to me,

And I’m dying to listen.

My part is to ring the silver bell

With my own heart.

I hear it sing.

The cosmos says, “This is now.

It’s longer than you think it is,

But short enough

That Life won’t get monotonous.

Fill your lungs with air and 

Be alive.

I felt a quiver of quiet beauty 

Just as a sweet tone knelled through.

The past timed out,

And suddenly I knew the meaning of the Present.

-jenn