Yesterday, 05:32 AM
Hero Redeemed
In the end, his life departed
from Greek tragedy, weak-hearted,
cursed with overweening pride,
hero only when inside
glaring armor of his own
fabrication. Yet alone
he surpassed the Grecian script–
hubris, nemesis, blind crypt–
with self-sacrifice redeeming
all his sneering pride, vain scheming
and the world. “I’m Tony Stark and”
dying, “I am Iron Man.”
In the end, his life departed
from Greek tragedy, weak-hearted,
cursed with overweening pride,
hero only when inside
glaring armor of his own
fabrication. Yet alone
he surpassed the Grecian script–
hubris, nemesis, blind crypt–
with self-sacrifice redeeming
all his sneering pride, vain scheming
and the world. “I’m Tony Stark and”
dying, “I am Iron Man.”
Non-practicing atheist