Ghost

I am surrounded by people

and yet I feel so alone.

They talk and laugh and move around me,

but I might as well be invisible.

I try to join in, to say something funny or clever,

but the words get stuck in my throat.

It's like there's a barrier between me and the rest of the world,

a wall that I can't climb over or break through.

I feel like a ghost, haunting my own life,

unable to participate in it.