Phone Call

I called you today. I stared at the phone throughout the entire day.

Even when my body did other things,my soul and my heart turned to the phone.

The ring,each and every one, more shrill than the last felt like fingernails on the chalkboard. I held my breath yet no one picked up. The voicemail started, the drone of the computerized female voice...reminded me how much a stranger you have now become.

My eyes slowly shut and the tear that was held at bay slowly fell. It was warm and slow. It caressed my face as it marked its journey down. I felt each nanosecond of that journey and yet, it too, like you, left me.

I put the phone away and forced my body to walk away.

It seems like an eternity since I heard that voice. The depth, the cadence and the soothing quality, I miss it.

I miss you.

My heart beats,my soul is alive and yet I ache.