Echo

about a divorce

You never answer your phone

When I call,

And

I always wonder,

If a phone rings

In an empty home,

How loud does it echo?

 

But I know your home isn’t

Empty when I call,

So I know

How loud the ring echoes:

As loud as golden bands dropping on the tile floor of the kitchen hallway:

A piercing ping

And offering,

Echoing in our hearts.

 

You never answer your phone

When I call,

And

I always wonder

If a phone rings

In a broken home,

How loud does it echo?

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[Dressed in Poetry]

"If a phone rings
In a broken home,
How loud does it echo?"
I. Love. This. Question.