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Telephone call
Amie Truelove
16 Mar 2003
The voice fades to static
As I lower the 'phone from my ear.
Silently, my fingers uncurl themselves from the receiver
And it falls, in slow-motion, to the ground.
The cat jumps at the noise,
But I don't even hear it.
I still haven't moved from the spot
I've been standing in for the past five minutes.
Is it only five minutes since I answered the call?
It seems like an eternity.
Now, as I stand in our house, by our 'phone,
With our daughter asleep upstairs,
I wish I had simply left it to ring.
Our daughter! How can I begin to explain it to her
When I don't even understand it myself?
It seems so wrong, so unfair,
I spoke to you just yesterday.
But the voice down the static-ridden line had been sure.
It seemed so matter-of-fact, so distant.
Only now do the words become clear in my mind;
You won't be coming home.
I can see my whole future in that instant,
A future alone.
As the microwave beeps from the kitchen,
A solitary tear escapes, and plunges,
Inaudibly,
To the earth.
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