Day 29: You're Not Real

Inspired by the exchange between Alice and Tweedledee/Tweedledum regarding the King dreaming her, in Alice in Wonderland.
 

No matter how true you may feel,

you’re only a thing in his dream –

You know very well you’re not real.

It does you no good to appeal –

You won’t be more real if you scream,

no matter how true you may feel.

As unlikely as a green eel

improbably trudging upstream,

you know very well you’re not real.

Don’t bother attempting to kneel

before him (his slumber’s supreme).

No matter how true you may feel,

you aren’t, and that is the deal.

Don’t bother about “self-esteem” –

You know very well you’re not real.

So throw away any ideal

that things are at all as they seem –

For no matter how true you may feel,

you know very well you’re not real.