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Answer To Mr Cellophane In Chicago

My wife of seven years has not noticed I exist I give her whatever I can but it is never enough She is looking for something better Someone else Someone more I am invisible Inconsequential Unlovable, unappreciated Replaceable, obliterated, Interchangeable, not even derange-able Mr. Cellophane should be my name People do not see me I am not felt or respected or acknowledged I am not even an I am or an I am or even an I Others get smiles, waves and hugs Strangers exchange appreciative glances I get nothing No one meets my eye today No one smiles No one has seen me at all I am Mr. Cellophane Invisible and expendable If I disappeared no one would notice or care Mr. Cellophane Mr. Cellophane If I was good enough to have a name This would be too good for me So maybe I will just refer myself to Mr. but the Mr. is too pretentious for a nothing like me. I will call myself C

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Date: 8/19/2020 8:54:00 PM
C for Chicago, eh?! OH, you KNOW I had to try this one, and I was not disappointed... And I'm even intrepid -- did I use that word right? -- enough to think that it wasn't about me! ~ From Frank Sinatra's Kind of Town,... Chicago is ... his kind of town... :)
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 8/20/2020 3:14:00 PM
Thank you my friend.

Book: Shattered Sighs