The Words I Need You To Say

Tell me I can do this.

Tell me I can do anything.

I can ace a thousand essays.

I can do what everyone thinks is impossible.

I can prove them all wrong.

I can surpass everyone else.

I can survive.

I can follow my dreams, and achieve them as well.

And tell me that I will.

Because you're the only one who will volunteer that information.

And I'm not as invincible as I'd like to seem.

I'm the amount of invincible that's unstable and likely to explode.

So please.

Tell me this, because you care, and somewhere in you, as realist and reality-prone as you are, you believe in dreams and dreamers.

You believe in people like me.