The Real Guy in the Mirror - A Children's Poem by Daniel Gauss

 

You can read the poem on Dirigible Balloon as well - a quality website for children's poetry: https://dirigibleballoon.org/poem/The-Real-Guy-in-the-Mirror

I look in a mirror and what do I see?
Reflections of light pretend to be me.
I’m real, I’m the real guy,
But the guy in the mirror looks more real than I.
If this guy in the mirror is what other folks get
I guess that’s OK, he’s the best guy I’ve met.
But I want to be a much kinder person,
And I wish this showed more in my mirror version.
I’d like to make the good stuff inside me the real reflection
And help people bloom like gardenias upon my detection.
Well, I gotta get moving, though, and get out there and go,
And meet folks from their own mirrors who left moments ago.