A Message for the Invisible: "SEE ME"

Have you ever felt invisible?
Like you're just existing in a crowd, but no one ever sees you?  
Do you always feel chosen last?  As if you're friends are only there when they need something from you, or when everything else is falling apart.

For everyone who feels alone.
                                      A shadow.
                                              Different.

                                                 
And you just can't seem to fit in - I write this.  I write your message to the world in this poem; most importantly, I write a message to you that will bring substance to your shadow!  Let me just tell you, if you feel invisible, it means you are the farthest from insignificant!  In fact, it means you were created for something completely unprecedented.  It means that people can't get you because you have a PURPOSE they cannot understand.  

You are a frontrunner.
                       An innovator. 
                                A world changer.

I hear your heart cry.  I see your struggle.  So does SOMEONE else, and He sees even more than you could hope, dream, or imagine for your life (Ephesians 3:20)...

INVISIBLE SEEN

Do you see me?

No.  Is it ME you see?

I wave and say hi,

and you keep passing by.

Would anyone care if I were to die?

Should I even continue to try?

I’m breaking slowly and no one knows.

I’m good at hiding, so it never shows.

But I feel if you really were to look,

you’d read me like a book.

Behind this smile is a soul

on which the rejections have taken a toll –

they’ve trampled me to the ground,

left me without a sound.

I just want to be found,

and this loneliness only continues to expound.

When will you choose me first,

not just be my friend when things are at there worse?

I feel used.

Abused.

And I’m so confused…

this pain with exhaustion is fused,

making me think, It’s no use.

The isolation tightening like a noose.

I’m breaking…

While everyone around me is FAKING.

BECAUSE THEY DON’T SEE ME AT ALL,

OR THEY WOULD HEAR MY HEART’S CALL!

So here I am…alone again.

My mind on this crazy tail-spin,

thinking, What if…

the thought makes my limbs go stiff.

What if something were to happen to me?

THEN you couldn’t help but see…

there’s the knife and the pills –

the thought gives me the chills.

What if though…

How would the scenario go?

“WAIT!  I see you –

and everything you’ve done and do!

I chose you before you were born –

to be here for you I’ve sworn.

I’ve collected each tear,

and held you near.

You are not invisible.

And I know you’re miserable,

but I love YOU…

I LOVE YOU, it’s TRUE!

I have more in store;

you haven’t even opened the door

to the plans I have for your life

beyond this pain and strife.

There’s SO MUCH I’ve set you apart for,

a purpose I’ve weaved within your very core.

So, now, I have a question – ‘Do you see ME?’

Because I came to set you free.

When your eyes are focused on mine,

You can endure anything of da kine.

I’m going to repair your heart anew

and carry you through

so you can accomplish all I have for you to do.

Look, see ME and let me make the invisible visible to you!”

© Krinda Joy, August 2011

For my dearest girlie – a shadow you are not,

but your heart’s been bought, and you’re a treasure that’s

been sought.  You are seen, and with God’s light you let

off a sheen.  So keep you smile, you’ll make it through this trial!