-1-
Hello?
             Hello?

I can't hear you anymore. Do you hear me?
I want to talk to you.
          …  see you.
          …  feel you.
          …  simply know that you're here,
that you're not slipping away from me.

That, right there, that is my biggest fear;
I fear your absence.
I don't want to be alone
in this crowded world.

-2-
Hello,
            goodbye.

I don't hear anything from you anymore.
I don't know if I want to now.
It's been so long, it feels like longer
since you and I last met.
                              …  talked.
                              …  anything at all.

It hurt, at first,
                         but now it's gone all


                                                  numb.
My heart, that is.

-3-
Hello.
            Yeah,
I guess it's been awhile.
I wish I was closer.
                …  stronger.
                …  more in tune with you.
But I don't know how.
And I'm scared to.
And I'm going oh so very fast and can't seem to make myself-
stop.

Help.
Please.