Ode
I’ve Met Her
I’ve met her. She was sitting by the window, bathed in the soft glow of fading sunlight, fingers moving rhythmically over her video game controls, music quietly wrapping around her like a shield from the world. Her mind whirled with thoughts—thoughts of not belonging, of standing apart from her peers, wondering if they ever truly saw her. Did they like her? Or was she invisible, fading into the background like the light slipping behind the clouds? She wore a mask, hiding her true self because the fear of judgment. Scared to be called strange. Scared to be different.
By Nicole Hurdleabout a year ago in Poets









