What’s His Name

To sit as the same desk you’ve sat for years
and still not have them remember you name,
those who control promotions and careers
that only remember the same people,
the rest are just corporate chattel,
no more important than the furniture.

Oh they even have an employee of the month,
but it is always one of several people,
who are the ones that play their games
spend their hours being pawns
because it is the only way to get attention.

Any who don’t agree must endure the reality
over how you will probably be lost on the lists
of employees thought as useful,
people who only count to be seen as dispensable.

It is to live in the subdued anxiety
about how those attacks of athazagoraphobia
have to be subdued for one more shift
since you can see in the eyes of others
that feel the same way
a silent stare of strained anxiety
while they wonder the same thoughts
how long before I am a victim
among the executives
of their version of amnesia
about those who they regard
as a simple mirage,
which will eventually go away.