A Hero's Secret

Hiding the secret  
Behind capes and cowls and lies  
From everyone who admires you  
When the disguise fits so perfectly  
The super hero becomes his burden  
A barrier between reality and make believe  
Justifying the crimes of vigilantism  
With arrogance that witnesses birthing legends  
While the one locked behind a tattered veil  
Forms a prison within the flesh of his reflection  
Altered by his ego behind a mirror he longs to smash  
Knowing that breaking the glass could shatter  
The dreams of falling in love to conceive confidence  
From the trials of self-authored crucibles  
Seeking justice in his personal conviction  
That somehow he saved the ones who looked up  
Into his mirror mounted on an invisible cloud  
Waiting for Lucy to reveal her ugly head  
Waiting for each piece to take its place  
To alleviate its own relentless loneliness  
Crowded by empty, suffocating lost souls  
Allowing her arch enemy to believe his secret is safe