Unnoticed

No one visits the museum to see me, but they see me nonetheless, and they never forget me.

The gallery is filled with pieces more extraordinary than me, but they don't have my gravity. I have a haunting, unsettling, and unknowable pull.

In a building of beautiful art, everyone stops to look at me. They pause, hesitate, and I catch their breath. I steal a spot in their memories forever.

Curious souls look for nuanced meaning in my ordinarity, but they don't always find it.

Unsuspecting admirers fall in love, and it breaks their heart to leave me.

Narcissists question why I'm at the museum at all because I'm not very special.

I'm not the reason anyone comes here, but I'm a piece of art nonetheless.

But you'll never notice me.