Reading you

I have trouble reading you sometimes
When we're on the phone
and you're quiet
and I've had a hard week
and my people energy is low.
I have trouble communicating sometimes,
or at least I feel as if I do
my words shrivel up
turn into empty husks
with no meat, no meaning, inside.
But even in the midst of such trouble
such internal difficulties,
if I can make you laugh,
I know that you're going to be all right.
And if you're going to be all right,
then I know that I'm going to be all right too.