Recycling

A Bible and a wallet together on the nightstand.
Glasses (repaired many times) as well.
A body unmoving on the bed beside them.

Stop thinking of this as a tragedy.

That the Book is currently not being read is a case of inconvenient timing.
That the wallet contains only three dollars is a case of simple timing.
That the glasses may still be used in their condition is good timing.

Consider the body on the bed beside them as token spent upon a future.
It originally passed into sleep with the expectation of waking.

Inside the body, spilled oil and unending war combined into a greasy swirl.
Inside the body, scent and noise and smoke will be alive and thus contradictory.
There is meaning to be drawn from them in the unstirring body.
It sleeps because it cannot be awake for that to happen.
It remains asleep because it has not found what it sought.

The body was a piece on a board to be moved.
Movement was the domain of the money, the book, and the lenses in their glued frames.
When all were combined a man existed.

Do not imagine that because the man ceased the remainder is of no value.
Each is a section of a puzzle.
Each is one clue.

Bury the body where it can sustain something as it grows.
Give away the Scripture and the glasses.
Pay the Ferryman with the money.
All will be of use in the effort to solve the world.
That this man has stopped solving means nothing to the solution.