Super Hero Or Super Villain
What will you do with your superpower
We are commonly enraptured by super hero films
Superman, who can fly or even Batman and Robin,
Many children dream of becoming a super hero
Others adore the villains that are totally rotten.
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I’m sure there have been times we’d all had dreams
Of having our very own superpower, giving us glory,
At times I wish I could fly, others I wish I was strong
And more often than not, I wish I could write a story.
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There are days when I’m down, wishing I was funny
Then there are the good days and I wish I could heal,
The sick, the anguished, the insane, the sick children
I’d take away their illness, pain they’d no longer feel.
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On occasion I wish I could pluck money from the air
But then I realised I would probably turn into a villain,
Instead I wish I could spread the world with abundance
Or discover a cure for cancer, something like penicillin.
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Then it began to occur to me, we all have a superpower
It’s one we all have in common, it’s our own very heart,
That amazing personal vessel that holds much inside it
Like love, passion, empathy, desire, it’s our work of art.
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Colleen Millsteed
My first love is poetry — it’s like a desperate need to write, to free up space in my mind, to escape the constant noise in my head. Most of the time the poems write themselves — I’m just the conduit holding the metaphorical pen.
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An excellent story told in poetry
I just wrote a poem about villains too. Waiting for it to get published but it seems many of us are discovering what we were taught as children made us want to be a hero... only to learn the villains were the more realistic characters we relate to.
Very cute poem and relatable sentiment
This was so beautiful! I loved it!