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I see what you mean about fitting somewhere between a story and poetry, I think it leans more towards the poetry side - prose - as opposed to a story format. While the instigating incident(s) are obscured from the reader the narrators frustration and struggle come through well. The emotions feel genuine. I like the self awareness of "give me several weeks" and "just a few days", it is easy to identify with that sentiment of knowing that we are desperate for forgive someone.

The insight into the narrators mind is interesting as they run through varying and sometimes contradictory reasoning - it captures well the internal brain chaos that we can run through, especially when faced with silence on the the other side, we try and fill in the blanks and even argue against ourselves.

The last line(s) felt like they were more profound then I could find meaning for - was this to imply that they other person needed to be honest and speak up to a number of people and you would just be another person in that line? Or is this alluding to some other behavior?