Disappear

by Cadence McCracken
(Martinez CA)

Real tears stain an invisible face.
I'm screaming, but you just don't hear.
My heart makes up this wasted space.
No-one notices as I disappear.

Fading away to escape your judgmental eyes,
and yet I'm trapped by your draining gaze.
Cut down and drowned by your endless lies.
I'm sorry, but suicide is not a phase.

Your pernicious indifference leaves a scar
on everything I believed of you.
I'm nothing to you, nonetheless a star.
Fighting a battle in which there's nothing I can do.

Hiding in the lives of those I create,
but it only shelters me from a moment of fear.
You've been here all along, but realized too late
that I'm gone. I've learned how to disappear.

© 2011 Cadence McCracken