by Renee Soulie

Created on: September 02, 2008

There are sounds that can change your world.

The phone rings as it has so many times before.

It doesn't always come in the middle of the night

with the gruff, sandpaper voice of the police officer

telling you of an accident.

No it can ring while the sun lolls against a crisp blue sky.

It can ring - warbling innocently, cheerily

You pick it up, your voice still carrying a tinge of laughter

from the moment before

when all was well with your world.

And the voice

that soft tired voice on the other end - your sister -

"The cancer is back."

I have come to hate the phone.

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