(Disclaimer: "This is not for Flufftober, this is an outpouring of emotions due to the phrase above, which hits me really hard.)

"Looking through the eyes of someone else...
Oh how nice it would be, to be myself.
And i am, to a degree,
I have people who acknowledge me.

"But to most, im simply not even here.
Mostly due to my fear of being revealed
For what if they reject the notion,
That im here?

"...'In the Shadows'...

"Funny enough, that phrase hits hard.
Like a 1 ton truck of lard.
For really...thats all i could even be normally called, i guess.

"A shadow, never to be seen. Yet tries to be noticed.

"What a weird shadow i must be,
to crave the light of acceptance,
Yet knowing it also holds rejection.
Or even simpler...unacknowledgement, being ignored. Refusal of existence.

"...Its okay though. I get it. Its hard to understand me, the weird little shadow.
Just know that...i dont blame you. I just would wish, perhaps even harder...

"That i could come out of the shadow of being behind someone else's eyes...
And see you with my own.
Until then...I'll support you from in the shadows.