Imagine feeling so overlooked that you start to think of yourself as a ghost. That is the idea behind "Phantom" by PintsizedExistance. The speaker describes a person who drifts through life unnoticed, left out of a friend group, the "third wheel" who is "hardly there." The poem suggests that the people around them have become wrapped up in themselves, and the speaker has been replaced or pushed aside.
The feeling is a tangled one. There is loneliness, but also guilt, and the poem hints at a painful cycle: someone tries to pull the speaker back in, then drifts away again, leaving one person begging and the other isolated. The ending pulls back and calls the whole picture "an exaggeration" built from "a false perspective," as if the speaker half-knows that the sense of being a ghost may not be fully true. The mood is quiet, sad, and a little uncertain, like standing in a crowded room and wondering whether anyone would notice if you left.