I Just Don’t Reply

All month now
you’ve been texting me
‘I miss you’ messages on my Viber.
Every night
you’ve been telling me
you are sad.
Isn’t that a lesson
someone your age
must have learned by now? –
You don’t miss people,
or anything else –
you just carry everything you love
with yourself.

I doubt if I’ve learned that lesson well myself –
I hope I have –
but just in case
I don’t reply.

Zlatna Kostova

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