Nobody

Nobody

By Shareese Aouad

Nobody said there would be days when I couldn’t feel my feet

Walking all day with nowhere to go

Everything I own on my back…on my hips…on my head

Eyes forward and fixed

Bones stiffened from the immovability of my own will

The glare doesn’t even faze me

Still fixed am I

Forward but to what!

It may seem vain of me to try to change what seems to have always been, but I can’t!

Still eyes fixed, back bent and head forward carrying everything I own

Nobody seems to notice or to care that I got nowhere to go

Huh, nobody looks at me like I got any dignity…just plain nobody

I wish I knew how to scream so loud that the earth would shake

Then they would care…then they would listen and look at me

Me with dirt on my face and grit in my nails yet filled with life

Yeah, they would take notice and look at me like I got somewhere to go

Never mind everything I own being on my back, on my hips…on my head

I am the somebody they first thought was a nobody they’d just walk by till they got to someone they believed was somebody

Until they realize they just passed somebody

I will forge on

Carrying everything I own

Everywhere on my body

Knowing I am somebody…waiting for nobody