It was foolish.
I was frightened.
I should never have left
such important words
escape my fingers
into my phone
out through a text
for you to read.

So few letters,
with so much meaning.

Twenty five hours
those ten characters have sat
in ether
waiting
unanswered
and every moment
that they wait,
those characters are turning
transforming
into other words
with other meanings
so different
from the original.

The longer
this text remains unreciprocated
the more
it’s meaning is curled
twisted
revised.
Soon
all
significance will be gone
and the message will prove to mean
something else again
and fright
shall never enter the equation again.