Overlooked

The feeling you get

at the end of the day,

when you are tired,

accomplished,

lonely,

sad and happy,

all at the same time.

When you are at ease with yourself 

finally.

When you lie in bed,

right before you drift to your groggy paradise,

and you look through your life

as if it were

a secret diary

that you’ve forgotten about,

the one you lost the key to

so many

years ago.

Well when you peer in

all the way from the

beginning

and you read each page feeling every sensory detail

at your fingertips,

living it all over again,

just like you did the first time.

When you see faces

on those pages,

the ones you’ve forgotten about,

and they are smiling at 

you.

And all those times you caught the glances

of a stranger,

meeting eyes,

for the first time,

the way your heart

was first shocked,

then pulled into overdrive,

then slowing to forty-five.

The way most of the time

you part ways

with that stranger

and those few seconds 

marked your love story.

The way at that moment,

you felt noticed.

The way you felt like there was a little bit

of every part of you

revealed

to that stranger.

That,

is the feeling

most frequently

overlooked.

Reviews

[Admiral Kirk]

This is very interesting and well written, and almost made me cry... Granted it's not very difficult to make me cry, but very good job! I enjoyed reading this and your other work as it is very well written and there is obviously a lot of thought put into it. Thank you for sharing this piece with everyone; it was definitely worth the read in my eyes.

[demureminds]

No problem, haha and thank you!

[....]

Very impressive write, and quite intriguing.
I have felt like this off and on.
written well

[demureminds]

Thank you!