In Need Of You

The phone rings off the wall
and my call goes unanswered.
The minutes I hang on

waiting for you to pick it up

seem like hours.
I keep calling back

hoping you'd arrived in between ...

since the last.
And each time I let it ring longer.
Perhaps hoping to catch you

just coming in,

or before going out again.

But each time
the wait is lonelier.
It seems like the times

when I need you the most ...

you're not there.

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Copyright © 2004 renewed by Jace Carlton

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Excerpt from Sounds of Darkness published by Diamond Heights Press,
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