They Never Noticed

I was there.
Every day.
Same seat.
Same silence.

I smiled
when they spoke.
Laughed
when expected.

But no one
asked
how I was.

No one noticed
my hands
trembled
when I reached
for the door.

No one saw
the tired
in my eyes.

I dropped
so many
hints
like glass.

But they all
stepped over
without a glance.

One day
I didn’t come.

And finally
they asked.

Where is she?
Is he okay?
Did something happen?

But by then,
I’d already
disappeared.

Not from life.
Just from them.

Because you can’t
miss
what you never
really saw.

And I
was never
really seen.