Work Text:
"Man of Steel"
Alone, he walks on ice
Within his Fortress of Solitude
Never bleeding, never sweating
Skin like rubber and steel
"I love you," whispers a dark-haired woman
The words linger, a caress
before fading like her
While he, unchanged
Flies by time's side
He speaks with images in crystals,
Ghosts of ancestors entrapped for eons
Escaping a dying planet
He awoke on a fragile world
knowing deep truths, truths upon truths
while buried fossils grew layer upon layer
Feelings vibrate in his bones as he
Speaks with images in crystals
"Superhuman!" shouts the media
Streak of colors through air
Whipping sharp breeze on skins,
Red hot faces, bulging shorts, moist panties too
He leaps to yet another task
before returning to
Speak with images in crystals
Behind closed eyes, silence,
he ponders
Eternity and...shudders
"Take me with you!" ring the cries
Waves of hands, a human ocean,
Grasping skyward in supplication,
Leafless branches toward some light
(desperate tendrils awaiting flight)
From open palm, stones fall,
sprinkling 'round people's feet: his offering
Vanishing into cumulus clouds, he leaves the many,
open-mouthed and silent, so they may
Speak with images in crystals
********