Paper Heroes



There are no more heroes in the world
Nobody to look up to anymore
No integrity displayed by anyone
No honor
No loyalty
No honesty

Now it’s all just flash
Lights and glitz
And the latest reality blitz
Nothing of any real substance

Gone are the days of a child’s hero
Long live the reign
Of the digital zero

Media’s royalty
Is the new elite
With piles of cash
And the latest tweet

Rappers and thugs
With bling and bang
Rhyming their way
With the latest slang

What a sad display
From a once great creature
The trading of humanity
For the next glitzy feature

I am sick at the thought
Of the future of my race
Who sold out their souls
For more advertising space

It’s all too funny
To even get mad
I just sit and observe
The next latest fad

Perhaps being of limited existence isn’t so bad
It spares one the continuing freak show of the mad


Eric (and sometimes not)
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Submitted by EASN on February 11, 2023

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme XXXABB CDDX EXE BFCF XGHG HABA XIXI BJXJ JJ X
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 879
Words 175
Stanzas 10
Stanza Lengths 6, 4, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 2, 1

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