Always there
Never seen
Pushed along
Another face
A lost soul
Searching for help
Never acquiring it
Unnoticed

No red flags
Envying the trouble makers
Who hogged all the attention
Exhausting themselves
To barely keep up
Why aren't they helped?
They're not an issue
Drawing no attention
And slipping through the cracks

Year after year
Exerting themselves
And for what?
An almost passing grade?
Sleepless nights
Helpless
Invisible

The constant failure
Building up
Creating an anger
Unable to ignore
Ripping you apart

The questions
Why you?
Why not them?
Eating you up inside
You shut down
The hours
Spent wishing
That someone could see
Help you
They don't
They never do
Oblivious to what's been in front of them
This whole time

Have you learned the skills to succeed?
You haven't?
You've missed a lifelong education
That can never be made up

Pretending to believe in you
But after a year
You're gone
Alone
Unprepared
Overlooked
You were forgotten