Don't Call

don't call


don’t call
after this, he said.
and on the times she still
does, like a ceaseless
chemical reaction
that only seeds
itself after midnight,
she reconstructs all
the words he has
ever used on her
and, from a distance,
the ones she wants to
hear are as transparent
as day –
it’s only a fib
if you can
bear the truth


Yi-Ching Lin

Posted over on her site Yi's Bits on "Healthy Doses"