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miles apart, inches away.

Deviation Actions

Published: Jul 9, 2009

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Literature Text

_{Your voice doesn’t sound the same through the phone.
I can feel you breathing, hear your gentle sighs in between words, but they sound tinny and weak. My fingers are wound tightly around the phone. The wire connecting it to the wall is my lifeline, my connection to you. I try to picture where you are, what you’re doing, and I see nothing. I just can’t imagine you anywhere without me there, too.
I think I love you.
I tell you this, and you reply in kind. I imagine your words traveling through thin wires, by water and sky and land, faster than my heart beats when you say my name. I think of all the other lovers who lay curled up under blankets, cradling their receivers as they cling on to every word spoken by the soft voice on the other end of the line.
My heart is heavy with the weight of missing you.}