Nearly every line of this poem is a question, and each one is really the same plea in a different outfit. The speaker wonders what it would take to be noticed: being louder, being bolder, even pretending to be someone else. Each attempt comes with a quiet "if," as though attention has to be earned or bargained for.
The feeling underneath is loneliness, mixed with hurt. The phrase "instead of through me" suggests the speaker has often felt invisible, looked past rather than looked at. "Battered and bruised" hints that they have been hurt, and that they don't want to be seen only as damaged. What they want is to be seen "just me as I really am."
The last question, "If I am me, / Will you love me," is the one everything builds toward. The poem stops without a question mark or an answer, which leaves the mood tender, vulnerable, and unresolved, like someone waiting for a reply.