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Michael

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-13

Posts 7666
California

0 posted 2012-09-16 05:09 PM

Invisible

No one ever sees me, they only hear my voice.
So busy looking through me, I guess they have no choice.
But, truthfully speaking, I do feel a pain
Each time I have to watch another person strain...

Just trying to acknowledge my existence,
Fumbling for words with such dire persistence.
Still, at times, I watch their happiness and I know
It's not something that should have to be worked so

Hard for – (the envy that strikes at me,
Wishing I was more like them, almost constantly).
...Having never felt the satisfaction
Of being understood, or interaction

On the same level as anyone,
Or maybe even just experiencing fun....
As I struggle to accept my own company,
And wonder if that could ever be enough for me?

I reach out anyway, what's left if I don't?
Hoping for a miracle, but probably won't
Ever be given the chance to start anew,
No footprints – no signs of life, who else even knew?

I'm probably only getting my just deserts,
For wanting to feel anything, even if it hurts...
That hope, I may yet I'll feel alive, I still glean;
Choosing to be invisible, wishing to be seen.

Michael Anderson

Death's but a path that must be trod,
If man would ever pass to God.

Thomas Parnell

Startime1955
Senior Member

since 2012-04-22

Posts 1072
Alberta, Canada

1 posted 2012-09-16 05:48 PM

I can tell you one thing...your words are never invisible...with such a talent it will never be so...keep writing...*BIG HUGS*

*may our dreams ever be magical*

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

2 posted 2012-09-16 05:57 PM

Difference in people AND circumstances, Michael, but I was so far down at one point in my life I walked midway across the Mississippi River Bridge in New Orleans prepared to take that fatal step off it. I didn't, of course, and when I walked back to New Orleans the very next day I met someone who saved my life, because4 I would have eventually stepped off that bridge. Don't give up.

~*~ If they give you ruled paper write sideways. ~*~

MARK V SHELDON
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since 2001-06-21

Posts 3015
In a corporeal internship...

3 posted 2012-09-16 07:58 PM

Flowing and provoking... The last line especially captures me. Thank you for the contemplation.

-MVS

You CAN make a difference, but first you should learn how:
http://educate-yourself.org/intro.shtml

katahdin
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since 2010-07-01

Posts 1196
ME. In the Shadow of the Mt.

4 posted 2012-09-17 01:56 AM

Nicely done! This could be about me, invisible is how I've often felt! enjoyed
Kat >^..^<

JL
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since 2004-04-01

Posts 6128
Texas, USA

5 posted 2012-09-17 12:00 PM

"Choosing to be invisible, wishing to be seen."

Roller-coaster ride -
I say: go ahead and eat your desert.
There is more of you to be seen and heard
and appreciated than there is a not-at-all.
(No, to the invisible man)

Enjoyed the read!!

JL

Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul,and with all your mind. Love your neighbor as yourself.
Maranatha!

Michael

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-13

Posts 7666
California

6 posted 2012-09-17 02:32 PM

Startime, as long as I'm breathing, I will be writing... one of the few things in life I am sure of.

JP, as bleak as my poetry gets at times, it is the tool that allows me to bleed out those negative emotions. Please know I have no intention, nor even think about taking "that" step. I do note your encouragement, though, and heed it as much as possible. Thank you, friend,

  (and I'm glad you didn't take that step either).

Mark, my pleasure.  I'm glad you enjoyed the contemplation.

Kat, not sure I can be happy you've felt invisible too, but I'm glad you enjoyed the read.

JL, just say no, eh? I'll try my friend.

thank you.

Michael

suthern

Member Seraphic

since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

7 posted 2012-09-17 04:02 PM

Choosing to be invisible, wishing to be seen.

Your poems are intensely personal... but one of the things that makes them so powerful is your ability to invite the reader to ponder their own world as well as yours. Often, I've put my foot in it to the point where I wished to be invisible... as I'm sure most have. LOL But this perspective has such poignancy and pathos... and leaves me with the shiver of someone having walked right through me.

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