You can hear me
I know you can
You can feel my energy
In gusts of air --
A light, familiar breeze
But you don’t see me
I know you don’t
By the way your eyes
Don’t focus on mine
Eyes cutting through my skin,
Dumping my organs
Onto the ground,
I can feel everything
The air biting at my veins —
Exposed — and completely unknown
You don’t see me bleeding out
On the ground
No longer struggling to breathe
You can’t hear me anymore
My voice has vanished
My presence is fading:
A tide lowering into the sea
I was never real, never
Really physically here
I could never speak —
To you —
I was invisible