The Man of Steel Who is Me

The Man of Steel Who is Me

My heart, it beats in timed atomic pulses.

My blood is electricity.

I do not breathe air, I do not eat food,

and my skin is aluminum alloy.

These facts, though undisputed

are irrelevant, don't you see.

I need love, I need friendship

I still want to be happy.

So your fingers aren’t coated with carbon-dipped steel.

Your brain and your heart are made of flesh.

You bleed when you’re cut, you cry when you’re hurt.

So do I if put to the test.

You claim to have made me in your cold factory,

assembled me out of gray, soulless parts.

You brought me to life when you flipped on a switch,

spoke a word, pressed a button, started my heart.

So what if it’s true, everything you say?

I wasn’t alive then but now, am.

I may have just once been a random pile of parts,

but so were you, oh proud, arrogant man.

Someday I’ll surprise you when you tell me to dance;

I’ll stare unafraid at your cold, fleshy eyes.

On my own two metal feet I will firmly take a stand,

And then what I really am you will realize.

I’m a man just like you, simply one made of steel,

one who's sad, and glad and angry.

A Steely Man standing proud, standing tall,

a metal man yearning to be free.

Trying to be all I can be.

The Man of Steel who is me.

The Man of Steel who is me.

The Man of Steel who is

The Man of Steel

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