Golden Age Superman describes the 1950's comics when heroes were all goodness. Superboy-Prime is the strongest version of Superman. A kid who goes on a rampage on realizing that real heroes were composed of shades of grey instead of being "pure"


Golden Age Superman vs SuperBoy-Prime

I miss the days without grey
That child-like perspective where heroes were good and villains were bad
With a concrete line down the middle
Day dreaming in a small classroom that smells like crayon and crafts
Superman always flies in and saves Lois Lane
Everyone cheers and laughs, roll credits

That was the biggest fantasy of all
Now our heroes have to be as morally ambiguous as the rest of us
As if we aren't all just fucking each other over to gain the edge
Lets not forget from Lex Luthor's perspective he is the hero of the story
Fighting against a dark and dangerous god
We are all kings and queens without kingdoms
We all know what's best

Sometimes I feel like SuperBoy-Prime
Driven insane by an insane world
Because every hero is really just an anti-hero in disguise
Nobody really sees it

Every child has that moment when they realize
The Golden Age Superman is a lie
And the real world is SuperBoy-Prime
We are all self described heroes in our mind
Villains in the mind of another





Poetry by JuneCloud
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Written on 2018-06-26 at 04:24

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Great subject! And very well expressed. Good writing.
Ashe
2018-06-26