The Sun Came Up

I was told to reach towards the stars when I was young.
Not once did they tell me that life was a living nightmare.
When we are naive and young we think nothing of what happened in this world.
We were told lies to make the world seem better.
But as we grew we saw through the lies we were once told.
We figured this life isn't so much as it was supposed to be.
As we go through school we learn that people are just as cruel.
What if the sun stayed down and the people were hidden?
I reached for the stars, but the sun came up.