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Rekrex 2d
When you stopped acknowledging me,
I removed you like a name from dust.
Now you have turned to a ghost, a distant memory.
Your cold replies have become even colder goodbyes.
Those same updates, your updates, are nothing more than irrelevant noise that I no longer wish to read.
Your stories continue to play, but I do not listen anymore.
Those conversations we shared were always empty, forced, and fleeting.
I brought warmth, and you returned chill.
Now, I walk right by like you weren't there at all.
And it happened in silence; a loud goodbye.
never put an effort to someone who truly appreciates you
Rekrex 3d
How tedious to watch people pass
all laughing like life is not heavy.
They sweep like rivers, fast and free,
while I'm anchored, concrete, and unprepared.


I sit behind invisible glass,
the outsider in the crowd,
converted smiles drifting past,
while my thoughts scream far too loud.


I want to join, to stand, to speak,
but silence holds my name with love.
Every time I try, my bravery leaks and what if they look? What if I'm just lame?


My anxiousness clutches like a net,
fishing deeper down without me.
They're swaying in a world that I've left,
and all I can think about is hiding.


It's not envy, not quite shame
just the pain of not belonging.
To be time bound and see the world so tame
is a whole new type of silent yearning.


So, I watch the people go past,
and pretend I don't care.
But truth is, I would trade so much
to be able to feel like I belong somewhere.
Rekrex 5d
I stay behind the screens,
watching from far away from
friends laughing in pleasant light,
while I shrink into the corners
like dust nobody will sweep up.


They talk freely and
my words rot in my throat.
Every “how are you?”
is like an exam I already failed
so I smile with hollow notes.


I want to say I miss you all,
but it hangs like guilt in my chest.
I want to ask can you see me?
But I already know the rest.
I'm just that blur in the group picture
there, but never really there.


It's not your fault that you don’t notice.
I made it easy for you to ignore.
I shrink back into smallness even quieter
than background noise,
somewhere along the way
I started to believe I was less than nothing more.


But still
I watch. I care. I wish.
Even if I can’t speak it right.
Even if my silence
is all that you remember.
Rekrex 5d
You simply walk by
Like I was air
A shadow thin, barely there.
I talk in silence, I scream inside
As you still turn and let me slide.

You are so close, I can feel your skin,
Yet you are so far I could never get in.
You laugh, you live, your world goes on,
While I feel the tears, not even my own.

You are gone when I need you most,
A flight of light, a missing ghost.
Tomorrow comes and you may show,
But never quite enough to hold me close.

Ignore me now, forget this face,
Come back when time has left its trace.

— The End —