In a Text Message

Where were you?
What were you doing?
Were you okay?
Were you thinking of me?

I wondered about you
that night you never called.
Was something wrong?
Did something happen?

No.

It was me.
I was wrong.
Something was wrong with me
so you ended it.

You told me you're busy
you have a lot of things to do
and we should take a break.
Sorry.

And you told me all this
in
a text message.
So cold and impersonal.

I called to talk
you didn't answer.
I called again.
Still no answer.

You won't talk
you won't hear me out
you're so stubborn
that you're not being fair.

So you just ignore me
like you always did.
You don't call.
You don't care.

If i died tomorrow,
would you notice?
Would you care?
Would you come to the funeral?

You've caused me pain
ended a relationship
and left me totally alone,
all in a text message.

a TEXT MESSAGE.
i guess I'm just not good enough
for a phone call.
and i never meant much to you.

All the poems,
the words,
the promises,
the lies.

I was stupid to believe you
to think i was worthy of love
to think this is my fault
when it's your loss.

You lost me,
someone who truly loved you
who put you before everything,
all in a text message.