I wrote this during a really low time in my life when I was contemplating suicide. Even though I seemed ok on the outside, I wasn't on the inside - I felt lost and alone.

This poem originally was published in Sad Poems - Depression and Suicide Poems

Nearly Unnoticed
She is lonely
Even though you can't tell
She is reaching out
For what, she doesn't know
She will continue to sit in silence
And hope that someone may stumble across
Her and all of her emptiness
But they only hope that they do it in time
Otherwise she will have drifted too far
And she may let go
Of whatever grasp of the world she has
As she slowly fades out of the lives of everyone
Nearly unnoticed.
114 Visitor Comments (from the Voting form)
  • Naomi-kaye
    youre poem Nearly Unnoticed is the best one that I have read in ages, I love reading and writting poems and I used to think that they were to depressing for others to read,but then I started reading others poetry and found that its not what others think its what you feel P. S I hope to read more of your poetry in the future!
  • jennifer
    i loved this peom it was so like my life it was ashtonishing
  • Cramen
    This poem hits me hard, as it is very true. This past month has been VERY difficult and this is how i've been feeling. I need to get away, but i'm never getting the chance. I just glad that i found this poem. XcarmenX
  • Jasmine
    This poem is awesome! It matches exactly what I feel, and the way you put it to verse, it's amazing! Great job
  • alexis
    I loved this poem. Thank you for sharing it.
  • Rechelle
    I like it, im not depressed or suicidal, i am just doing a play at school abou suicide and this poem it kina what it's about, thanks for giving me some ideas. it was really good
  • Norma
    I'm amazed on how I saw my feelings expressed by his words. so beautifully expressed.
  • Jen
    I vote 9 out of 10. this is a really great poem that really says something to me. At the moment I am full of insecurities and I feel like this a lot of times.
  • paige
    i love it! and tnx 4 writting this poem its good 2 no that someone feels the some
  • clara
    your poem had alot of feeling i could really understand what your feeling in the poem
  • paige
    wow i get this poem so much because its me in words
  • Hate
    This poem is very touching. It makes me want to print it and hang it on my wall. Good job Reese!
  • Felicity
    This poem touched me because it reminded me so much of myself. I'm 13 years old and I'm going through this exact same thing. Thank you for posting this, and good luck.
  • Jessica
    This discribes me to apoint I sit in the corner and try not to be noticed by anyone and I wish sometimes that I just wish that I could fade away. I loved your poem
  • lele
    it was really good i will gave it 9 jut bc i think it could been longer
  • charity
    i loved it and i love knowing that someone feels the same
  • alex
    I feel the same way!
  • KAyla
    i loved the poem. It defeintly tells how depression really is.
  • Beth
    # 1 in my Book!
  • Claudia
    I really like this poem. It really touched me. Thanks for writing this wonderful poem. :)
  • chereka
    i love this poem because it explain me i am fading away and i am glad some knows how i feel
  • Richelle
    I liked the poem alot because sometimes that's exactly how i feel.
  • Kathy
    It is a short but apt poem. I can't describe how much it touched me. It reminds me so much of a girl I know.
  • laura
    wow i really love your poem!it awsome keep writing.
  • karla
    i was touched to read a poem so true, and how moving it was. on a sad note my friend grant killed himself and know one knew he felt that way. your poem makes people realize you have to look deeper than the surface. very wwll done
  • Beth
    Is anyone ever really noticed, or are we passed by like a small piece of trash in a gutter? Great poem.
  • Karen
    THANK YOU for writing this. it's how a lot of us feel. I am going through so much right now and it's exactly how I feel. its beautiful. keep writing from the heart hun.
  • Fiona
    Wow this poem is exactly IT
  • robyn
    I really liked your poem. I know how you feel. Last Christmas (2004) I took a drug overdose. I felt that was the only way out. I'll never do it again. God helped me see the light and now I am finally happy. Keep your head up and remember there are people that do love you.
  • Beth
    You wrote the words & thoughts in my mind! down too the exact letter! That is breath taking. And shocking! TY! Beth
  • Shayla
    I really liked this poem cuz i can relate to it. i felt as if i was the girl it spoke of.
  • Chandler
    this poem touched me because it is so real that is how so many people feel. it related to me.
  • Erica
    Wow i really love your poem it touched me because sometimes i feel like that. Very good poem
  • Scarlett
    I Voted for this poem becausse it touched me because there are a lot more people out there who feel like that someone like me so im telling you now why i voted for this poem because i dont feel like feeling like this for ever always each and every second of the day im trying not to keep it piled inside me like the person in this poem.
  • k
    this poem is amazing. It really hit my heart because i'm supposedly one of those kids with everything but in reality i dont have anything. My world is empty and lonely and completely unnoticed. And as your poem says . one day i want someone to just fall upon my life andmaybe try to understand it. Thanks for the amazing poem.
  • krissy
    this poem is absolutly one of the best poems i have ever read it made me see myself in ways that i have never seen myself before.
  • maggie
    This poem touched so close to home. I read it and was like, "wow" this person knows.
  • ilona
    ey gud poem and im sry u felt dat way or still do jus remeber ur family and frends care bout u and try to make it threw .
  • sindal
    i really liked this poem. me and some people are having problems and i thought many of times of committing suicide and thanks to ur poem and am starting to understand that there is more to life.
  • whitney
    its a good poem how do you get to write one yourself?
  • Chelsea
    WOW i like this poem its a lot about u i can really relate to it. i like it alot and im gonna hang it on my wall of peoms.
  • Nicole
    i loved it i could totally relate to this great job
  • Brook
    i really loved this poem it describes me so well i always feel like no one notices me thanks 4 such a great poem
  • Laura
    I really loved this poem. I know everyone must say it truly showed how they feel but it does. I can relate to this poem so easily. I continuously hide my feelings from my friends and family and sometimes i feel so alone but this showed me i'm not the only one that feels so alone. Thankyo so much for writing this. You truly are a great poet.
  • Leann
    I think this poem is made for me because this is how i feel over all other emotions.
  • Tammy
    thankyou. your poem touched me like no other. i can completely relate to it. thankyou for making me feel as though im not alone.
  • Emily
    Thank you 4 writing this poem! it really touched me b/c no one knows how i feel and u wudnt ever expect it b/c i am supposed tp "popular" and like happy and all that. awesum
  • Barbara
    You read my heart!
  • crystal
    i loved this poem because i feel that i am left unnoticed all of the time and i never find that one person to sit down and listen and before I know it i will lose a grasp on life and this world and it will be too late i will be left unnoticed i always wanted to be noticed but everytime i try i get pushed away more and more all I get noticed for is my harmful behaviors torward myself and then i am considered a pshyco because of the people that drove me to feel so hurt, unnoticed and feeling like i am not a part of this world that anyone would wanna be part of but for some reason i just dont fit in as hard as i try i get pushed away .
  • Sarah
    As everyone has said - this describes alot of us. It just goes to show that even though we are all feeling alone, we're not actually alone in feeling it. There are so many poems out there about being lonely, but yours is one of the few that has really touched me and I felt I could really relate to properly. Thankyou.
  • Lindsey
    i love your poem it really reflects me alot
  • stnr
    I am the girl in that poem. That's me!
  • Karen
    a poem that is beautiful
  • nichola
    dis really touched me coz i woz in da same sortof prob where da depression ddnt show on da outside
  • april
    the poem was great.
  • Julie
    That was beautiful.
  • Laura
    Wow. Just, wow. This is exactly how I'm feeling right now in my life, all rolled up in a neat little package. This is a great poem, keep up the good work.
  • alyssa
    ur poem has alot of emotion in it and i really like it
  • Mitchell
    i cried.
  • Mary
    I was suprised by the fact that im not the only person going through this i thought i was stupid for being depressed but i guess im not alone i meen who would think me sad?? nobody notices nobody tries to help that pisses me off reese thanks for this poem i feel so much better.
  • Hope
    This poem described totally how I felt and still feel. My dad is never there and my mom is always in the hospital battling the eating disorder that threatens to take her life. The only thing that pulled me through this year was a group of teachers from my school who showed they cared when I thought I couldn't go on anymore. I hope to tell them someday how special they were to me and how they saved my life, even though they don't realize it, but anyway, i loved your poem and I hope you'll write more like it. Thanks!
  • Kimberly
    I felt exactly like this a few weeks ago and i feel that this poem expresses how i felt perfectly
  • Amanda
    That was an amazing poem. I'm the exact kind of girl you described b/c i always smile and as long we smile no one cares. i just someone would see beyond my smile. great poem!
  • Fran
    hey i think tht it is just brillaint! i understand it totaly! its gr8!
  • lex
    i know everyone says that this poem is exactly how the feel. well its true , this poem to me relates to how i feel when im around my best or ex best friend.
  • Tammy
    Wow. Such a great poem. This was how I felt not too long ago. It's reassuring to feel less alone, and that's exactly how you made me feel, thanks to your poem. I really enjoyed it. Thank you.
  • MyriadOfStars
    This was the most incredible poem I've ever read. It says everything perfectly. This is exactly how I've felt for an entire year. invisible and unnoticed. I've been trying to write a poem myself about this but have not been able to capture the right words. Thank you so much for letting others know that we are not alone.
  • Megan
    This is an amazing poem. i can really relait to it. i really dont know what to say about it as i was breathtaken that someone can write a poem so true to someone like me. this poem has inspirered me! thank u!
  • liv
    lets see. thats exactly how i feel. specially b/c no1 would ever think sumthing like that of me,and thats what hurts my the most,to sit there and have everything just poor out,and no one notice
  • Caitlin
    oh great poem! this totally describes me, i always feel like no one notices me, thanx for a great poem! :):):)
  • rebecca
    i liked it very much
  • Amy
    I just wanted to say that I feel the same way and I dont think that anybody should ever go through this. I had to since Kindergarten and now I am in 10th grade. So if you are one of those people that dont 'notice' us take a look around.
  • Crystal
    Awsome. Awsome
  • Rum
    I really loved your poem. It's exactly what I'm going through and feeling right now.
  • Rum
    I really loved your poem. It's exactly what I'm going through and feeling right now.
  • Michelle
    I love this poem. It is amazing. Exaclty how I feel.
  • sequita
    Reese describes how many people including me feel about depression.
  • brandi
    I like most can relate to this and i think it's sad that there is that many people in this world that feel like this including me!
  • Ally
    this poem is just amazing i actually cried reading it its exactly me and my feelings its how i feel every secound of everyday thanx for sharing it helps to know other people feel the same way that i do your an awsome writer keep writing!
  • Mar
    This poem is a great truth for many people. Many of us feel unnoticed during our life -and probably are for many-. I don't think they really notice us and it seems to me that they don't even try to notice us.
  • Brittany
    i think this poem is good i can relate ive been through alot and im sad all the time but no one notices or cares i sumtimes cry and dont know y im alwayz sad but i cover it up with a faded smile so i can say i relate
  • brandi
    This poem is awesome I know what your going thru.
  • female
    just wanted to tell reese that this poem is full of beauty. you have wrote what i have been trying to say for a long time.
  • Ashira
    AMAZING POEM! thanx for sharing
  • Heather
    This is how i feel everyday of my life i just cant expressit qand u have in this poem thank you
  • michelle
    I am 33 years old and can so relate to ths poem that it hurts you took was in my heart and soul and wrote it
  • Alexa
    This is my favorite cause it's the one I most relate to. I think the authore of this poem is a realy good poet and can probably relate to this poem like I can.
  • baby
    I can really relate to this poem, it describes exactly how i feel evey day.
  • jwlz
    Amazing. I think this poem captures exactly how it is for so many people. I know when I first read it I felt as though it were about me. There is hope out there for all of us who are screaming on the inside, and this poem shows that we arn't alone as there are so many of us in the same situation. Hope, love, and peace to all of you.
  • ash
    your poem is so much like how my life used to be.
  • Angel
    this is so beautifully written. I have depression and I don't tell anyone how I feel so I feel like he wrote this about me.
  • cloud
    Superb.
  • Eriko
    This poem reminded me of a friend (if you replace the "her" and "she" with "him" and "his"). He's always alone, and this poem reminded me of him. Great work.
  • Lisa
    by reading the comments i realize that i am not alone but i am still unnoticed
  • Stef
    It seems as though you wrote this poem while in my head! I feel this way so much and by reading this I realize I am not as alone as my mind thinks!
  • lisa
    hey i hope someone notices you and helps you
  • Jamal
    I just want to say that this poem is so true. I read it and I feel that you know exactly how and what I feel.
  • Jon
    that was so beautiful
  • Nemesis
    This poem is great it states so well what its like to go into a depression and know that nobody can see you cry inside even if you wish the could but are to scared to say so. Its usually the people that you don't expect that do the most damage to themselves and its usually because nobody cares (at that what i thought when nobody noticed) , but this poem means you are noticed and everyone who reads it cares.
  • lost
    This is an amazing poem it is short yet gets to the point it says so much. This is exactly how my life is and im relived to hear that people have gotten thru what i am going thru and what i have been going thru for 5 years.
  • Axiocersa
    I've read this particular poem several times now and it never ceases to amaze me! It's really beautiful and it touches me deeply
  • beth
    i totally feel you. i was seriously, clinicly depressed for years. thanks to 2 1/2 years of counsling and paxil, i am better, but this describes where i was. wow.
  • MysticR0se
    I know how you feel. I was in love once with a guy. He never once took notice to me. It's like he saw all but me! I just melted into the background forever alone. I'm a poet too.(mostly 'bout sad poems of lost love.) You have a talent, never waste or take it for granted.
  • Laura
    This is a beautiful poem! I have felt the very same way a time or two. I truly hope the poet is doing better now!
  • laurence
    this poem is so good because it hit me where it hurts- i have a friend who is very much alone (she has attempted suicide a number of times) and this poem captured her for me- i could see her in this poem. thank-you
  • Alicia
    I never read a poem that actually explained my life so well,the poem spoke to me so clear.
  • Erin
    this was a really great poem it hit at the heart of depression.
  • sophie
    i can agree with this poem directly when i was in my early stages of depression
  • Joanie
    I think this poem was good. But, I think you should of went for the unthinkable for the title. The poem you wrote gets people's attention, it is noticed. Your note nearly unnoticed at the end, so for the title you should of written Noticed. People wouldn't expect that, it's daring. Keep writing poems though.
  • valerie
    this poem was interesting. it was calling my name, and it touched me. i liked it a lot. it is exactly how i feel.
  • Bobbi
    This poem explains my life so well. I appreciate the fact that you care and write these poems. I am now trying to receive help from the doctor
  • sabrina
    i love the poem
  • terri
    Hi Reese, What a sad poem. It reads as though you have entered my life and know what is going on in my confused mind.
  • Damien
    I really know where you were coming from here. I still feel this way sometimes.

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