A Poem for a Girl on the Other End of a Dial Tone
December 14, 2022
I loved you.
911 what’s your emergency?
Though the times you hurt me.
Is he there with you?
I told myself you were a good man, a man of god.
Ma’am, stay calm.
I thought if you knew true love.
Does he have a weapon?
Then you would change.
Is he intoxicated, ma’am?
I thought I could make you better.
And he hit you how many times?
Do you know how long I waited?
Ok ma’am, help is on the way.
Do you know how much I prayed?
Try to stay on the line, ma’am.
I convinced myself you loved me.
Ma’am? Ma’am? Are you still there?
And I told myself to stay.