Silence

The phone call doesn't happen
and you realise it never will,

things left unsaid a shattering silence
that I need to withstand.

Another days dawn with rays so bright
bird song overpowered with emptiness and a need to share, 
a shattering silence unable to bear.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2016

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September 17, 2016 at 5:43 AM
Poignant feel in a plaintive poem ...
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