If that phone rings across the other line, <br />just one more time, <br />I don't know how much longer I can keep my mind. <br />Because you're not going to pick up, <br />I'll end up again hanging up. <br />If I have to hear a message machine <br />the only directive I can leave is 'Shut up! ' <br /> <br />Honestly, <br />it's ending me and that's not enough. <br />And the energy it takes to dial, to wait, <br />is too much. <br />There's no brick wall to challenge, but there's no place to go. <br />You think it's altruistic how you can't say straight no. <br />Being that compassionate, <br />You're the most blatant, victorious dishonesty I know. <br />Just say the deferential words you have to. <br />I'm so tired of hearing them from your phone.<br /><br />Delilah Miller<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/phone-message/
