I ride my bike
Around my new neighborhood
And kids play in their yards
They don't see me
I think I'm invisible

Past a school leaking band music
I coast along
They don't hear me
I think I'm invisible

By a pond boys are fishing
Lying lazily in the grass
Staring through water
That reflects my image
I think I'm invisible

At a park baseball players
Yell around the bases in the sun
But they don't look my way
I think I'm invisible

At a pool the laughing and splashing
Drowns me
As I lean against the chain-link fence
Peering in
I'm invisible

A hurrying dog hustles by
staring down
tongue hanging
collar jangling
While I sit by a playground in silence
waiting for when, or until
And wondering
If this fog that engulfs me
Might lift

And then, in the most simple way
When it seems most unlikely
"Do you want to play?" drifts my way
And I say, "yes"
And the sun lifts the fog
And I'm invisible no more