I think of the things I cannot do and
Some friends assure me You Can!
It is kind, I guess, when they say
You’re not like that, you just should try

But no one offers help
The help I need to just try
I think, they think
That I just may be right

They don’t want my failures
To cloud the idea of me,
The sketch of the before me,
Carried safe and secure,
Inside their full, and whole brains

The idea that I am like them
Because they know, that if they just tried
They could do it, but know that I can’t
So I am not really like them,
Me with the damaged brain

The comments make them feel better
About themselves
And they think that they have
Helped me feel not so different

I asked a friend to take me hiking
He did not say that I could hike, if I just tried
Instead, he said
It really would be more like just a walk
But he took me and it really
Was more like just a walk