Walking in this path I choose to hear

Words that otherwise fall on deaf ears

For words which others pay no mind

I find saddening, hurtful and unkind

I stay to shadows, afraid of my own

Hide from the masses, afraid of being alone

My life a contradiction of rejection and fear

I'm invisible, no one knows I'm here

Then into my darkness did reach a hand

I heard a voice say, "I understand"

"Don't be afraid, let me show the way.

To a new beginning, a better day."

The fear left me, right then on that spot

I feared many things, but

Of this, I am not

June 3, 2013

(Thank you @elluciana for the title, idea and first line. Copyright jointly held.)