Have You Seen Me At All

Have you ever seen me at all?

I am the girl you pass by on the street

The one staring at the ground

The girl laughing in the hall

The one with people all around

I am the person in the corner

The one’s scream no one hears

The person that sits alone

The one whose smiles insincere

Have you seen me at all?

You pass me on the street and don’t offer a second glance

I’m your friend to whom you confided the world

I’m the one in your arms

The one you hold and kiss

You try so hard to know me but there is something you have missed

Have you ever seen me at all?

Have you really seen me?

You see me everyday

You smile and you wave

You look down and turn away

You laugh with your friends

You tell me the teasing joke

In the end we’re all the same

Well all go unnoticed

However, some try to see

The person living inside of me

We all look past yet we are all unseen

Maybe it’s time for someone to see

The beauty waiting inside of me

Behind the façade of appearance dwells a dark reality

For I am not what I want to be

But in what I am is all I can be. 

Lora Douglas