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Tell me what happened here,
When I am standing near,
    and you just stare right through me
Like I have disappeared

Just tell me what is wrong.
Why can't you hold on?
    How dare you feel alone when
I've been here all along.

        Why aren't you listening?
        How loud must I be
                        I am already screaming!

                        You look up from the floor,
                        Open the closet door,
        and now I shout no more.

Because it becomes clear,
As we look in the mirror,
    I can't see my reflection
So maybe I'm not there...
The narrator is not dead or invisible. The narrator is trying to reason with someone else. In the beginning the narrator is talking to the other person trying to get them to realize that he/she has been at that person's side since the beginning. Then the person looks into the mirror and the narrator realizes that his/her reflection isn't there. Then narrator then understands that he/she is not actually by his/her friend's side, but rather only trying to rationalize with his/her self that he/she has been a good friend. In the end the narrator was never actually next to the person, and that is why the person wouldn't respond with the narrator. 

Sometimes I feel like we like to be passive friends where we are too afraid of getting involved that we end up not being supportive of our friends. Often at times we lie to one another and say that we are by their side, when in truth we are only saying that to make that person happy. In reality we aren't actually there for that person, but we tell that person that we are until even we believe we are. That's what this is about.
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