Piece By Piece Poem by Hannah Diane Williams

I'm right here,
Do you ever see me?
Do you even care?
Of course you don't
Because no one ever sees me.
To everyone,
I'm invisible.
No one sees me.
I'm ALWAYS in the way.
I don't say much
Because I'm afraid
I'll say the wrong thing..
That's what I always do.
But there's a fire burning in my chest
And I'm not sure where it's coming from.
I know it's anger,
Anger towards everyone.
But it's growing,
Growing until you can see
My cheeks as red as fire.
My heart is crying out,
But no one seems to hear.
I'm not important,
And I can't do anything right.
If I felt like someone cared,
Maybe things would be different.
But no one seems to care.
So, I'll either sit here ALONE
With no one to care,
Or do something drastic,
Like die.
It's not that I want to.
But you're killing me,
Slowly, but surely,
You're killing me.
And one day,
You'll look back on this
And regret what you have and haven't done.
Because one day, you'll see,
As you were tearing my heart out,
I was tearing my flesh out,
Piece by piece.