I'm on a crowded sidewalk,
there's people walking fast around me.
Everything is a blur of motion.
The air is thick with cigarette smoke and factory pollution.
Contaminated air fill my lungs and I cough loudly.
No one seems to hear me choking on the air I'm breathing in.

After catching my breath I gaze at the environment around me.
Its busy,
there are good looking men talking on cell phones dressed in suits and carrying briefcases -
there's beautiful women walking with multiple bags strung around their arms some with little dogs on a leash behind them.
I felt as if I didn't belong.
I look down at myself and I see that I'm wearing a plain black t-shirt and my pants have multiple holes.
My shoes are starting to fall apart at the seams.
"Where am I?" I ask a man passing by me, but he didn't seem to notice I was there.

Am I invisible?

That's when I see you.
You're staring at me with those beautiful blue eyes.
I say your name, silently at first, almost only to myself.
I say it again louder this time, but you stay there, unresponsive.
I scream your name, and you move toward me.
I reach my arms out to grab you, and the moment I will never forget,
is when you walked right through me, as if **I never existed.