should i walk out the door like i did before?

sitting here and i just can't speak

these people don't know me

the way they all know each other

why do i even bother

being here right now?

let me be in the walls,

be in the halls

be in a place where they can't see me

be where they see me for me.

stand up and walk right out the door

be ignored as to not disrupt the lore

of the stories from their past

where they all grew up laughing

in their local stores.

i know nobody anymore

i moved when i could

and my friends just stood

as i walked out that door.

these people know everyone

they have met in their lives.

nobody from my hometown

even knows i'm alive.