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So much light in this world.
So much to love and appreciate.
And yet we only seem to see the darkness.
So much God given art.
So much peace and love.
And yet we only seem to see war and hatred.
So much beauty…
And yet it is all invisible to us.
Why do we look but not actually see?
Why is it so hard for us to see past the things that blind us in life?
Maybe it’s because the things that blind us are more than we can possibly handle.
Or maybe it’s because we are too stubborn to see the beauty in a world full of darkness and hatred.
SangAndTranen Mar 2018
I hear him at night.
He growls and he grins.
It runs straight through me,
With whispers of sin.

His breath, it makes me choke,
His voice makes tears fall.
And when someone runs to help,
They see nothing at all.

The sun it shines with radiance,
And then he slithers away.
But as the sun falls,
Out he crawls,
And I can hear him say:

“Shush little lady,
Don’t you scream.
You know you deserve this,
You know it’s no dream.”

They all come running,
They shake me by the arms.
Demanding what’s the matter,
Demanding that I calm.

But the monster that is under my bed,
He leaves them all alone.
And no one else believes me,
While I have always known.
Open to interpretation - what do you think it is about?
ht Feb 2018
And like that
my voice has been stolen away
Anxiety barricades like invisible steel walls
Trapped, I’m left banging with clenched fists
A prisoner within my own head
My brain a chemically imbalanced warden
My mind in solitary confinement
i've been denied bail | h.t
E Lynch Feb 2018
When I was young,

I found out I could become invisible.

I didn’t notice straight away,

but there were moments over time,

In the day to day where people,

Would see through me,

As though I was air.

It took time to figure out,

As all skills do.

But it seemed the more I desired it,

The more it illuded me.

At the moments I needed it most,

It was not there.

And at the moments I wanted to be seen, or helped, or loved…

It worked.
Irene J Feb 2018
Help me,
I'm drowning.

Nobody see's me,
I'm invisible.

There was no air to breathe,
there was nobody listening,
I was all alone.

The darkness pull me down,
and the light slowly slipped away.

I didn't take a chance nor I try
because nobody could save me,

except myself.
numerous series
   of unfortunate events didst abound
populating unpleasant
   when i attended public school
   (lower providence district)
   being token punching bag

   nearly getting creamed
   via faux pas who gleefully clowned
serving as convenient scape goat de jure,
   within insults drowned

silence of this lamb basted bleating heart liberal,
   whose nonestablishmentarian stance
   (albeit hermetically sealing self)
   where bullies found
ideal target, this passively quiet student -
   those meanies did hound

epitomized via feeble
   literary endeavors attempting
   to capture memories
   housed in memory mound

within this aging noggin, which anger
   sometimes surfaces finding urge to pound
the st out of those åh*s
   who (when in a pickle) thrived on my dill

   hem ma relishing
   dishing out a threatening round
with a deserving swift tailored kick
   or punch their snout

   as just desserts regarding
   arrogant *** a nine jibes so sound
   all pent up fury would uncoil
   like a taut spring that buck aim unwound.

my withdrawn mien served
   perfect appetite for destruction vis a vis zztop
   talking heads' motley crue
   many hardships that occurred upon
   boarding the bus

   thence becoming another brick in the wall
arose from deep-seated psychological difficulties
   to cope with academic rigors and deadlines due
   which mortified this then lad
   to procrastinate and stall

thus inducing gnawing anxiety,
   which within my psyche grew
   swallowing my entire spirit
   within invisible whirled
   wide web that did maul

that je nais sais quois bon vivant desire
   to be alive thus panic did fester and stew
   eventually leading down a slippery
   emotionally devastating course
   where will power did fall

teasing fantasy with suicide and nostalgic
   for a real or imagined childhood lost i did rue
   trying to stave off grown (via starvation),
   when psychiatrist
   my late mum and pop (sic) call.
lu Feb 2018
“I’M OKAY.”
THAT’S WHAT I SAY

“I’M OKAY.”
MAYBE IT’LL BE TRUE TODAY.

“I’M OKAY.”
MY WORDS WILL ALWAYS BETRAY.

I’M OKAY
I’M OKAY
I’M OKAY

BUT I’M NOT OKAY
NOT TODAY
NOT YESTERDAY

I’M HURTING SO BAD
BUT NO ONE EVEN KNOWS THAT.

NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW.
I’M AT MY ALL TIME LOW.

I WILL SIT HERE AND CONTINUE
TO BE,
WELL,
INVISIBLE ME.
1:40am
Sabila Siddiqui Jan 2018
Amongst the forgotten,
at the back of one's mind.
In the corner of the room
I sat there with my head in the book,
blending with the shadow and air.

My love invisible,
thoughts indecipherable,
words soft to be heard
and clothes made of invisible thread;
I felt I did not matter.

Not my emotions,
nor my words
or my vote
for my presence was as good as my absence.
Swaying like the air in the room
Phoenix Jan 2018
I wave but you can’t see me
I speak but you can’t hear me
We touch but you can’t feel me
I’m getting panicked now
Why can’t anyone recognize me?
I scream but you won’t turn to me
You search your memory
for any remnant of our history
but you seem to come up…  empty

I finally realize
I’m missing from your memories
You don’t remember
all the times I’ve wiped your tears
You don’t remember
all the times we’ve laughed together
You don’t remember
all our peaceful years

I know this is just a waste of time
but it’s hard to watch
your future sprinting past our crime
We were always easily divisible
but I didn’t realize
I was so invisible
This is supposed to be a spoken word poem.
Bethie Jan 2018
I was born to be unnoticed
A shadow in the dark
A photo that never focused
Fire without the spark
I am the nameless one you saw
Who sat there, all alone
Unnoticed by the crowded hall
A phantom, never known
You don't know me, no one does
Invisible I'll stay
You don't know who I am or was
Please interfere- I beg
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