The phone rings but nobody is there. Is it due to fear or is it because they can't face the truth? Did they suddenly change their mind? Perhaps they simply forgot what they were going to say. Who rang anyway? A person? The world? Or nobody? Or nobody important?
And sometimes I ring people, but nobody is there. But they are there. Are they fearful of the truth? Or of their own lies? Then again are these their own lies or simply somebody elses lies put to them through tissue paper and a comb. Perhaps it's hereditary, I certainly hope it isn't catching! Some say "the woman is only as big as the lies she tells", others say "she is only as weak as the truths she doesn't tell".
When the phone rings sometimes it is easier to lose sight of the truth, of your spray-on thinly veneered persona of convenience, and so nobody answers. There may not even be anybody there. Perhaps they went into town and left the lies behind. A sort of virtual untruth answering machine that serves only, they think, to perpetuate the myth and to hide the truth. In reality it shows the truth more than it hides it. Like those who publicly despise mobile phones but privately rush to buy one at the earliest convenience. They even lie to those they openly admit to lying to. They lie about which lies are the truth and which truths are lies. Eventually the truths become lies and the lies become truths.
Perhaps even they went into town and left the truth behind like a dog parted from its master. Sometimes the dog is left alone so long it doesn't recognise its master anymore. Sometimes the master doesn't even recognise the dog.
Sometimes when the phone rings there IS somebody there.... and then I wish there wasn't. Like a place visited which never really lived up to its expectations but which you had told everyone was so brilliant that you couldn't possibly admit to being wrong about it. So you hide the truth. Its not a lie though, not a lie you tell anyone. It is, however a lie to yourself, and then a lie to others because the truth is that to lie so truthfully the truth must in itself be a lie.
Sometimes the phone rings and it's a wrong number, and then a stranger says "sorry". Which is the truth. So the strangers tell the truth, and those you know tell the lies. 

My phone rang today. A voice at the other end said "If you want the truth then you have to dial the wrong number."