The person you are
calling is currently
unavailable,
please leave a message
after the tone.
Inbox empty,
you currently have no
new messages.
My phone vibrates,
a moments elation
deleted
by a network text.
Only Facebook asks me
how I feel.
I tell it I feel
alone
and twenty ‘friends’ respond
sending hollow hugs and
‘thinking of you vibes’.
You are not one of them.
Log-in to Yahoo messenger,
your name fades to
grey.
Maybe tomorrow I’ll see
your face.
But then I remember
you’re
one Hundred miles away.
© Cat Hill 2013
Inspired by dVerse prompt with focus on the Media
