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Late-Night Phone Calls MAG

January 19, 2010
By Smarty638 BRONZE, South Dennis, Massachusetts
Smarty638 BRONZE, South Dennis, Massachusetts
2 articles 0 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
"...re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul and your very flesh shall be a great poem."


It's 2 a.m.,
I've been holding your hand
for two hours
through this drunk phone call
and you continue
to slur your speech,
spilling out everything
you thought I should know.

I was calm,
if neither of us was,
I would've hung up long ago.
As you begin to cry,
your voice gets increasingly louder
and somehow more steady
with each syllable you get out
(through the alcohol)
the liquid gives you courage
I wish you didn't have,
and I feel the burn
of tears coming on,
but I can't,
I won't
I have to fix you.

I have hung up now,
and I don't know what you are doing,
or if you will remember this,
but thanks to my sobriety,
I will remember forever.
It will replay in my mind
for weeks
and I won't sleep tonight.
You have disrupted
my perfectly planned night,
and despite your flattery
and guilt,
I am angry,
because you gave me this burden,
a burden I shouldn't have to carry.

It's 2:17 a.m.,
the shower is my comfort,
and as the heat hits my back,
I feel the panic rise.
I pull myself a little closer,
hoping my stomach won't fall out,
down,
down,
down,
into the drain.
The water streams out faster, and
I pretend the water is ridding me
of you.
Gripping tightly onto the curtain, I get out
and my eyelids hang heavy,
no longer able to shed their skins.
Suddenly,
sitting on my bed,
I can't control my spinning head, and
sleep

makes me forget.


The author's comments:
I hope it will help others think about what they say before they say it and how much it could affect the other person positively or negatively.

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on Sep. 26 2010 at 8:01 pm
elmosoreo SILVER, Paducah, Kentucky
8 articles 2 photos 37 comments

Favorite Quote:
Oftentimes we say goodbye to the person we love without wanting to. Though that doesn’t mean that we've stopped loving them or we've stopped to care. Sometimes goodbye is a painful way to say I love you....

This is great....I had an experience that reminds me of this. :( sigh....oh well.. 

on Jul. 5 2010 at 2:54 pm
bbygurl21 PLATINUM, Boston, Massachusetts
29 articles 0 photos 111 comments

Favorite Quote:
sticks n stones my brick my bones but words cant

wow this is amezing piece of work. you are a better writer then i am☺☺☺

on Jun. 2 2010 at 7:16 pm
sparkofheart GOLD, Plymouth, Minnesota
16 articles 2 photos 253 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Always" - Severus Snape

the latest (june 2010) issue! wow its so amazing i loved it you have an amazing way with words :)

on Jun. 1 2010 at 7:56 pm
Smarty638 BRONZE, South Dennis, Massachusetts
2 articles 0 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
"...re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul and your very flesh shall be a great poem."

thank you so much!i'm flattered you read it! I didn't know it had been published in the mag until today...do u have any idea what issue it was in??? Thanks!!!

on Jun. 1 2010 at 4:28 pm
TheSummoningFreak PLATINUM, Lugoff, South Carolina
41 articles 0 photos 122 comments

Favorite Quote:
if you can never let yourself fall you'll never know what it's like to love

WOW, is all i can think of to say. this is the best i've read in a while i love it. i like the suspence cause i son't knwo who she was talking to and what about i like it great job