I Know You by Heart - JJ Heller

I see you packing all the lunches

Loading all the kids into the van

Tonight you’ll tuck them in at bedtime

Tomorrow you will do it all again

Overlooked

Feeling like a ghost nobody sees

I wish somehow

You could hear the truth that’s clear to me

You are enough

You matter in this world

Every second I am proud of who you are

Although you feel forgotten and invisible

I see you and I know you by heart

I see you walking through the lunch room

Smiling but you’re choking back the tears

What if you ran away tomorrow?

Would anybody know you disappeared?

Overlooked, feeling like a ghost nobody sees

I wish somehow

You could hear the truth that’s clear to me

You are enough

You matter in this world

Every second I am proud of who you are

Although you feel forgotten and invisible

I see you and I know you by heart

If you’re looking for significance

And you can’t see the difference from one day to the next

You’ll never have to guess the way I feel