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What's it like to be a Superhero

The problem with being a superhero is that you always have some sort of weakness. Sure, I can bend time and physics but if I hugged you I’d crush you.

I have premonitions of danger, that’s how I can get to crimes almost instanteously, except if danger happens to my own family, doesn’t register.

So as I watched my father’s struggle against the noose, I felt for the first time truly powerless. I couldn’t grab him and I had arrived too late to stop him. So he just kicked as he swayed…

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I watched, fingers inches from his face, hot with his last breaths

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I have saved the world countless times, but I could not save him

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All the power of the cosmos and I am simply human

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So you ask me, what’s it like being a superhero?

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