hero just because

'hero just because'

you're no hero of the day.

you don't own a cape.

you run into empty buildings 

only to save dreams

once they’ve perished.

it’s so much easier to collect

the cash and adulation

from those more oblivious than you.

you're no faster than a speeding bullet.

you take the coward's way—fraud.

the hollow require air to bloat themselves;

the bloated gnaw the fat from the bone;

the children need a role model fashioned

from something other than a rental suit.

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