#unremembered - Hello Poetry

She’s a shadow that nobody remembers come sunrise. Morning rays shine through, and she fades like a child’s breath winter on a window. No matter how hard she tries, people have to sleep. She can make stars glimmer, the moon glow, but no one evers actually looks up at them. At least not those who plan on staying here. They pass through her as if she’s air, touch her edges without knowing, leaving fingerprints on her silence. They see her, but not really. Always participating, never there. She lives in the spaces between their sentences, in the pauses where their laughter dies. She’ll make a joke, try to be enough, but she’s met with plastic smiles and polluted oceans of teary-eyed hiccups. They only keep her around because she’s always been there, a fixture, a shadow. A name on the roster of someone else’s life. And even though it would all be the same without her, she stays because she doesn’t have anywhere else to go. This room is cold and unfamiliar, like a hotel in a city she’s never seen outside the glass. She presses her palm against it and watches the city lights sparkle, bars and parties she would never be invited to. It will never truly belong to her, but until her keycard expires, she’ll whisper to the stars and yearn for one of them to remember her name.

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Nov 20, 2025

Nov 20, 2025 at 11:19 AM UTC

writtenbyjulia

Shadow Girl

She’s a shadow that nobody remembers come sunrise. Morning rays shine through, and she fades like a child’s breath winter on a window. No matter how hard she tries, people have to sleep. She can make stars glimmer, the moon glow, but no one evers actually looks up at them. At least not those who plan on staying here. They pass through her as if she’s air, touch her edges without knowing, leaving fingerprints on her silence. They see her, but not really. Always participating, never there. She lives in the spaces between their sentences, in the pauses where their laughter dies. She’ll make a joke, try to be enough, but she’s met with plastic smiles and polluted oceans of teary-eyed hiccups. They only keep her around because she’s always been there, a fixture, a shadow. A name on the roster of someone else’s life. And even though it would all be the same without her, she stays because she doesn’t have anywhere else to go. This room is cold and unfamiliar, like a hotel in a city she’s never seen outside the glass. She presses her palm against it and watches the city lights sparkle, bars and parties she would never be invited to. It will never truly belong to her, but until her keycard expires, she’ll whisper to the stars and yearn for one of them to remember her name.

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There is an unwriteable in my life, An unspeakable in my mouth, An undreamable in my sleep. Such a hurt, That I cannot even skirt Around it, hint at what The unpermitted is. A blank space in my head Once remembered, Now consumed. As a doe absorbs her kittens, I unlearn myself, Unwritten from existence, And unspoken evermore.

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Sep 16, 2015

Sep 16, 2015 at 5:10 AM UTC

AmandaIS

UN-titled

There is an unwriteable in my life, An unspeakable in my mouth, An undreamable in my sleep. Such a hurt, That I cannot even skirt Around it, hint at what The unpermitted is. A blank space in my head Once remembered, Now consumed. As a doe absorbs her kittens, I unlearn myself, Unwritten from existence, And unspoken evermore.

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12.13.14 this day, my day I was given another year to live Another year to grow Another year to start a new This day have made me realize Realize that I have to let you go Let go of the thoughts of you Let go and never have to look back I was then never remembered by you I was never been special for you I can say you were never mine And I will never be yours I have thought for days and hours But you never remembered my day As you have told me you would be Would be there when it will come

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Dec 16, 2014

Dec 16, 2014 at 8:42 AM UTC

Ambitiouswanderer

Never Remembered

12.13.14 this day, my day I was given another year to live Another year to grow Another year to start a new This day have made me realize Realize that I have to let you go Let go of the thoughts of you Let go and never have to look back I was then never remembered by you I was never been special for you I can say you were never mine And I will never be yours I have thought for days and hours But you never remembered my day As you have told me you would be Would be there when it will come

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