Tuesday, 2 March 2010

This is a call

Your voice slurs through the speaker

My phone wants my thumb to turn red and white

Pressing hard and cutting you off like blood to my brain

Maybe then I’ll see sense

Your face fades to a memory of smiles and broken embraces

You linger behind my eyes like the ghosts of light

And your image stays when they open

Seeing you now is more of a chore than before

Your awkward smile and mumbled greeting

And my back to the world as I reply because every fibre is telling me

No

I won’t burn the photographs

I don’t want the good times erased to be taken by the bad.

Your constant reminder of my failure

The wrong words or the bad decisions.

I would never have imagined this a year ago.

A short time to change my reality.

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