I never did anything amazing,

I never joined a winning team,

I never ran for student officer

All I ever did was dream.

In my dreams, my fantasies,

In my imagination, I was a hero,

But in real life, in reality,

I was a just a zero.

In real life, I was the girl,

Who dropped her books in the hall,

I was the dorky girl, clumsy

Who always seemed to fall.

But in my dreams, my reality,

I was amazing, helping all

In my  reality, everyone was special,

No one would let another fall.

In reality, I read about heroes,

People like Martin Luther and JFK,

I'd swear to myself, "You'll see,

I'll be like them someday."

But that day never dam,

And only after I'd left this world

Did I fully realize,

I wasn't ready for the world.

Now I'm in my dreams, My reality,

I'm a hero now, just not the usual kind.

I'm a special hero,

One that's hard to find.

So in both realities, I learned.

The world never failed me,

Only I had failed myself.

Maybe the problem with this world isn't that we don't trust each other. Maybe we need to trust ourselves in making our personal realities into a real reality.