The world looks right through me or doesn't see me at all. I disappear easily into the background. It is not that I do not try, I just cast a faint shadow. I want to be part of life, but all I do is blend in. When you hear static in a room, perhaps it is me trying to speak. I am simply drowned out by all of the things around me. For all of my efforts, I am but a shade of an existence.