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No Longer Invisible
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This is another rewrite from a piece I wrote five years ago. I've always sensed a larger story behind it, but that is something for the fiction category in the future. This poem examines how we keep those close to us real even when they are absent.
Rated: Fiction K - English - Words: 250 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 11-30-10 - Status: Complete - id: 2869395
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Am I going to disappear,
cease to belong to memory,
just because you have forgotten
to imagine me?

Last night I was in the wind
flying all around you.
You walked your daily paces unaware.
But against the backdrop of driving snow,
you did not see me passing through.

How can I be your angel
as long as you keep me invisible?
How can I be real if you will not see?

Am I going to disappear,
cease to exist in memory,
just because you have forgotten
to imagine me?

You walked around in circles
as if no time at all had passed.
I held my breath, lifted my eyes
and prayed to a merciful heaven:
Please do not let this moment pass.

Are there too many others just like me?
Do they make me easily slip your mind?
I can promise you my forever-and-a-day.
I'll miss the ways in which we connected.

You pause in front of my shadow,
but your eyes are looking beyond.
Give it a moment to see the truth...

Am I going to disappear,
cease to remain in memory,
only because you have forgotten
to imagine me?

Your soul reaches through darkness.
Before a word is upon my silent tongue,
you smile with the light of a thousand suns.
I fill in with color, life, reality
due to your flawless imagination.

My shadow is now real.

No longer am I invisible,
I can exist forever
as long as you remember me.

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