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.