A Hero's Beginning

Have you heard of the broken boy wonder Who spent his bitter youth torn asunder Knowing he could kill with a single touch And desperate not to use that as a crutch To silence those who couldn’t comprehend Some minds are too broken to simply mend

But when a car came gunning for a girl He couldn't stop the powers that unfurled And felt the fear, gripping him for so long Leave as he halted an obvious wrong

When the dust was gone and the screaming stopped The woman wasn’t hurt though her head flopped In the arms of someone more than a man He'd crumpled the car like a soda can And faced down the crowd with a cocky grin While he wondered how the papers would spin That first piece on a boy who saved a girl When he became the man who saved the world