What the Phone Remembers
An elegy in fragments
What disappears does not always depart.
💭💭
My phone beeps.
The screen lights up.
Back—
forth.
Up—
down.
No post.
But my phone
recalls.
💭💭
Flash.
Flash.
Reminders.
I scroll
Past.
They used to jab .
Now-
Stirring.
💭💭
The room-
Floods with them.
Dad's laugh - cut off.
His sobs - unclear.
I sit--
Not moving.
Back--
Forth.
Up--
Down.
💭💭
Reminders.
Flash.
Flash.
He walks.
Into the space.
With me.
And lingers.
💭💭
Original poem by Michelle Liew Tsui-lin. AI tags are coincidental.
For Vocal's After It's Gone Challenge
About the Creator
Michelle Liew Tsui-Lin
Hi, i am an English Language teacher cum freelance writer with a taste for pets, prose and poetry. When I'm not writing my heart out, I'm playing with my three dogs, Zorra, Cloudy and Snowball.
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