It just sat there.
Waiting for me,
Begging for me to ring
you.
So I did.
I expected your machine
(why should today be different?)
but instead it was you.
It was really you
and I wondered why I’d rung.
Then you told me that you loved me.
And I knew.
© S. McLean 1994
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