Untitled Poem by Maya Reid

People talk
Balls bounce
Dogs bark
Cars drive
The world goes on below me.

Birds sing
Planes fly
The brilliant sun fades away
To the moon’s glowing orb
The world goes on above me.

I am suspended
Hanging here in-between
I don’t belong to the world of above
Nor am I part of the world below
I am alone.

I am everyone, yet I am no one
Your best friend and your most feared enemy
Your mother, father, sister, brother
And yet a stranger when we meet on the street
Do you know who I really am?

I am everywhere and nowhere at all
No one, no place owns me – yet I can’t bring myself to leave
I sit and watch the oblivious world below
While I the world above cannot see
Can you see me?

I know it all, yet I know nothing
I’ve seen it all, yet I am blind
I’ve heard it all, yet I am deaf
I’ve said it all, yet I am mute
I exist, yet exist I do not.

For to exist is not enough
I yearn to be loved
Yet I am not wanted
I strive to be me
But I’m still learning who that is.