From: Karolyn R Benger 
              		The Truth     
              I have not heard from you and
	        I wait and
	      today I wake early.	

              The sun peaking through the blinds
                lights on my telephone and 
              says, "you have not called."

	      The telephon sits and I know 
                that it knows 
              the truth.

              I walk away from the phone 
                into the kitchen and
              I feel the cold floor waking up my feet.

              And it almost makes me 
                wish 
              I had my slippers.
                                                 -Karolyn Benger