The no message message <br />A space without a frame <br />No sound or a syllable <br />leaving behind a name <br /> <br />Inscrutable silence <br />Wrong number didn't dare? <br />Nothing in particular <br />Though someone had been there... <br /> <br />For they tried more than once, <br />To see if I was home, <br />I was of course, they knew it <br />By not answering the phone... <br /> <br />Perhaps it was destiny <br />I left hanging on the line, <br />'Why didn't you answer? <br />We called time after time' <br /> <br />'We could not reach you <br />So we gave up the cause, <br />Is misery the resting place <br />You go to just because...? <br /> <br />'No' I tried to defend <br />The weakness in my ego <br />Hesitating to answer <br />The calling of long ago... <br /> <br />'You will have to explain someday <br />And face yourself, 'then, <br />The voice added: <br />'You will have to face us as well'... <br /> <br />'I know, ' I said, 'I was <br />The blank space on the tape, <br />The one who wished to say something <br />No recording device could ever replay! <br /> <br /> <br />©All Rights Reserved-2011<br /><br />Romeo Della Valle<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/an-inscrutable-silence/
