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Invisible
by S.J. TylerIf I brush your cheek swiftly
Will your eyelids flutter?
For a millisecond? At all?
If I dive into your rock hard lips
Will the stone crumble away?
Or will it struggle to hold itself together,
Re-glued and polished
And unwavering to me?
Am I invisible? Below your visible threshold,
too faint for you to possibly perceive?
Or worse yet, am I even here?
Or a figment of my own nonexistent imagination?
Not just draped in cloak, but maybe
I have no matter either
Since you havent answered
My imagination is tempted to jump and bounce
All over fanciful conclusions
No, I must exist, even the air billows
At my frantically waving arms
Even if you dont
Gentle stroke or bruising punch
Your icy cheek shows resilience
It will not falter or flush.
Frustration? You might say that,
Though I am not spent yet
Nothing I could do wakes you from your state
Or lets me know you are aware
But that you flutter socially
To every others beck and call
No longer shall I be a tool
To make you feel superior and sophisticated
Once a tool, now a weapon
I reconfigure
Now I am a chisel
Harder than your cracked and crusted lips
Sharper than your polished hard cheeks
No subtly here, jammed into the center of your head
You shatter into crumbs, a dust that fills the air
When it settles, will I find a human being there?
10/31/2002 Posted on 08/19/2003
Copyright © 2025 S.J. Tyler
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