How to Become Superhuman

But you can’t even defend the shells on the beach

Because your spine is sore from standing carelessly too damn long

Then begins the bickering banter in your ear,

A wave like a fist hits the bank

Claws the grains of sand underneath the water

That misses and pinches back

You run on the dusky trail

And know that someday you will be too much to carry

Much more than you imagined in a superman world

A child who believes in play

Who gets high on ideas and dreams

Will surf the waves longer than you

Because they have what you needed

How could you think you’re more

Than sticks and bones and borrowed air

You belong to a kingdom of ants

With no capes to fly across the sea and view

The starlit windows of crack babies and black-suited men

You are no different than the man who steals fish to provide

Than the woman who hunts love in her unborn child

The sky is more than a ladder can reach

There’s no more room to breathe

To forget that living is harder than you thought

When you look at your toes sinking into sand you begin to wonder

How many times your knees will shiver

Under the arrow of this life,

Shot right into the ground like lightning

And to forever be the nerves of this world