Alone

I sit in a crowed place
surrounded by people
yet I am alone

sitting with friends
yet still in solitude
am I that different

I am seen and heard
acknowledged not
every now and then incite a smile

across the room I see eyes
but they look away as quick
a smile is nothing anymore

darkness in a world of light
such misery within a grin
the living ghost

do they really see me
just drifting through life
forever unnoticed