Grant me super-human powers

For just one day

And I would save the world

Leave the petty thefts and midday muggings

To Superman

The corporate corruption and social psychopaths

To Batman and Robin

Let the men in spandex handle the news worthy crimes

 

Instead grant me the power to bring laughter

To the forgotten children of the world

 

I will calm the cries of innocent lives

Destroyed by those who should be shelters.

I can mend the battered bodies of those

Too fragile to fight back

Let me feed the hunger swollen stomachs

of the wide eyed child

Who breaks his bones to feed his sisters

 

I don’t need to fly or have laser eyes

Only open arms, where every

Abandoned, neglected heart can find a home.

 

Grant me the ability to love vulnerably

The children sold into slavery

And “loved” for a price.

Their innocence taking without a choice.

 

I will kiss every scar, wrap every wound

And  wipe every tear from their dirty cheeks.

Because every child deserves  to laugh

To see sunshine, and kite flying

And be the apple of someone’s eye.

Because no crime is greater than

When one of these little treasures

Is abused.

 

Let Captain America resolve

Political issues and foreign destruction

Leave the robotic meltdown and fictional frenzies

To Iron Man

Give the “big” issues to the Big heroes

And I will hold a child’s little hands

And warm their tiny heart.