Is It Too Late?

A free verse poem originally published 15th May 2025 on Vocal Media under the pen name Sapphire Ravenclaw

I don't know who I am

I have never known

How do I work it out?

Is it too late?

I feel nothing

I feel everything

I am empty, drained

I am full to bursting

No true friendships

No close bonds

How do I find them?

Is it too late?

Emotions evade me

I am overpowered

Love creeps up on me

I am confused

I am lonely

Company eludes me

Would anyone notice

If I wasn't here?

No confidante

So who do I ask?

Am I too much

Or not enough?

I try harder than is seen

I have tried to fit in

I never will

I don't know how

People are exhausting

But give me a choice

To be included

Is it too late?

I don't know who I am

I am not seen

I am too loud

I am too quiet

A background friend

If even that

Mostly unnoticed

There is no place for me

Not as confident

As you might think

The real me is hidden

From all but a few

There is more I want to say

I don't know how

I talk too much

But tell very little

I do it all

I do nothing

I am gone

You didn't see