I write because the paper is the only one who will listen to me. My whispers and shouts alike fell upon deaf ears until I picked up my pencil. Blind eyes looked through me before they read my words. Fingers that could barely trace my outline can embrace me after flipping through my pages. I write because my invisibility had become a security blanket that I no longer wanted to need. I write, and now my visibility is a luxury I never knew I had so long desired.