The bell simply tolls

No need for thought
or pondering beyond
duty.

No worry with administration,
money things,
or unrequieted love,
The bell simply tolls,
when it tolls.

No mixed messages
about you being here or there,
or hoping, wondering where you want to be.

No fiddling around with day or night garments,
to attract someone who cannot see
you for who you are or hope one day to be.

The bell simply tolls when it tolls.

No need for fits of organization,
Or pomp and circumstance,
No whimsy held for the first or
the last dance.

The bell simply tolls when it tolls.

No questions.
No searches.
No need for hope or answers.
No cues and wants
and wonderment and flaunts
and risk and haunting...

The bell simply tolls when it tolls.

Loud and uncaring
Proud and unsharing.
Moved, in it's own time,
Outside all other reason and rhyme,

The bell simply tolls when it tolls.

In due time,
I'll have no care for you being in my
audience.
I'll have no want for your applause,
I'll have no need for your witness,
I'll have no heart full up with stress.

I'll simply breathe when I breathe
I'll speak when I speak.

I'll loom around my own life,
Dance around my own floors,
Lead my own movements,

For, the bell simply tolls when it tolls.

Jason Christopher Johnson
August 19, 2011