back then the men would look and smile at me like boys applying for a summer job but no i never would respond the vacancy was taken back home my love would whisper in my ear those words a shelter for a troubled soul that voice like sunshine when you re cold like water when you re thirsty and then one morning he was gone a day went by and he was gone a month went by and i would stand by the window holding the baby shaking with fear then one day i heard it as real as the sun that voice in my ear that s when i realized it he was invisible like a magic trick like a miracle i don t know how he did it he was gone but he still was there but totally invisible but don t get me wrong he was tangible but invisible like gravity or the air they said i had to take a little rest someplace where they could keep an eye on me despite the bars across the window my room was pretty sunny those days were mumbles in a sleeping ear the hallways always smelled like chicken soup most of the doctors were polite the nuns were nice and nunny you eat your lunch a year is gone you go to bed ten years are gone then you wake up and wonder where is it hiding where did it go i don t understand the life i had wanted the life i was promised the life i had planned then i realized it it was invisible that entire life was invisible because somebody misplaced it so it had to be somewhere just out of reach just out of sight there s a couple dancing in candlelight no gravity we re spinning in the air now things are pretty much the same as how they used to be the young men still are smiling they just never smile at me at first i thought they might be blind like love or gravity but then i realized i picked it up i ve got the gift i feel like supergirl i ve become invisible i m a magic trick isn t it wonderful like a character in a comic book i can see what you re thinking but i don t care so if you re on an empty street and you hear the tapping of high heeled feet or you hear a heart like a phantom beat or the screams of a woman left incomplete well don t fear what you can t see the odds are good that it s only me i m invisible i ve vanished in thin tada