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Call, Terminated.

 

The face was smashed, cracked

and damaged from where

it had hit the floor with a mighty,

sickening thud, it still held life though,

radiating through the near dark

of the stairs where it lay, though how long

before it drained out,

private phone numbers

mixing and congealing

with internet browsing history

and flirty text messages

to her husband, the see you later hun’s

and the inevitable three xxxs,

the phone had fallen

or had it been pushed,

as the face drained of its icons

Call.

I lose the nerve to ring you, for what can I say

that you think you already don’t know

and I know deep down that at the times that I call, your phone

will be gently snoozing in time with your need for sleep, if honour

lets you close your eyes for a single minute.

Yet you know you are going to have to ring them,

even if it’s to arrange to crawl on your knees

and be penitent, surely remorseful and contrite

for why are they suffering

when you keep yourself out of sight.