Is this then the Age of Men?

Spandex doesn't hide anything

with it's breath-tight grip.

That's why the heroes wear it

to show they have nothing to conceal.

No gaping wounds, no trick knees

not even the ridge of a scar

to tempt thoughts of mortality.

So here they come

flying to the rescue

without even the dust upon their feet.

Congratulations.

How great to be the Untouchables

saving the untouchables.

What happened to the knights of old

carrying their virtue like a weight

across their shoulders in iron?

They knew what a dangerous thing

it was to claim to be

anything more than human.

To come thundering instead of gliding

with the hours of travel behind them

weary and worn with armour chafing

but arrive ready for battle.

What sacrifice in defense when

your smile is kevlar thin

and if you seem to die it's only

in order to emerge alive again?

Rather ride with mortality astride

looking for the red dawn

for justice and for peace

and the fear that would freeze

the best of these

if they could ever feel it.

So here to the weary warriors

who have seen too much of dark

here to sharpened swords and dulled armour

to truth and justice and fear

all wrapped in one.

Hail.

And for the invincible, the sure

a suit of spandex with nothing to hide

and nothing inside.