broken lines

They talk on phones with broken lines,

and none of them can hear

the other end; it is

good when I-Hate-You's are buried mute and

let slip but nothing gets better because

every "I love you" she repeated between the

gasps and the sobs

remain unheard.

They talk on phones with broken lines,

with the words never getting through,

words that should and should not be kept

and hanging up

leads to no change but 

pain because he hung up

when she said "I'm sorry."

And he never heard her cut her heart up for him

to mend, so she is now left broken

like the phone lines in the middle of the

night.