Anyone else but you

You are phoning me,

but not today,

If we do talk tomorrow,

which we will

I'll say sorry,

my phone was on silent

in another room

and I had an early night

you know how hectic

it has been recently

especially now that I'm 

moving house again

I need so much energy for

interaction

I don't know how other people

do it. I once posted my phone

to France, My friend moved there

last year, to the outskirts of Paris

and those few days

while my calls and messages

were being sent to a switched off

phone in a post box 

and then a sorting office,

then across the British Channel

on some kind of post boat

full of letters written to people

who have moved to France for love

an pen pal conversations

going back to the 1970s

and when the phone was posted back

to me I phoned you and said

we need to get better at this.