I should be brave enough to pick up the phone

and just say I forgive you,

but how would I feel

if someone then

did the same to me,

if they decided to make the call

and separate years of a grudge, yards

of supposed pain,

how would I respond than other with a thank you.

 

Late at night,

I agonise on how you would respond

when I tell you that the one word

you used down the phone

to me beat me to a pulp,

that your assumed position,

your elder-statesman like disgust

for me that goes back to a time

when I was small, hurt,

and when I put the phone down on you

in mid-sentence,

when I left you hanging,

I was intent on never talking to you again…

 

Yet I should be brave, I should tell you

before it’s too late, before my

resolve runs dry.

Ian D. Hall 2015