Love Is Not Here, Please Leave A Message Poem by Amanda Saveley

Love...
Darkened at the doorstep of a lost hope
I search for you still...
Lost in the sea of my utter discontent
I missed you somewhere
Along the many miles of stretched pavement
Was a single message
My machine did not pick up
I only wished that someone would hear the message
I had left on your machine
But no one has
And no one ever will
For love,
Your machine is broken
Over-used,
Borrowed by many,
You are the friend everyone looks for
But few can find
Because no one bothers to write a letter anymore
No one has the time
You are old as time,
So you do not believe in e-mail
Just letters
And a machine that receives no messages
For Love,
You are unreachable
You have tried in vain to reach me,
Knowing that I was searching for you
Somehow...
But my machine is also broken
For I threw it against the wall when you last called
Enraged,
I tossed you aside like a thought long forgotten
Paper torn and lost in the wind
Love...
I missed you
And now that I wish to find you again
To apologize
You are nowhere to be found
Did you throw your machine against the wall as well?