One less super hero written by Alan.s.Robinson

When the sun has set,

and darkness takes the land

And every shadow holds it breath,

and silence catches every word that’s said

when the black sky cries aloud

with the hostile voice of lonely night

when I lay my aching head among the sadness of my sighs

there’ll be one less super hero on my side.

When the hearse we tearfully follow

Slips away for another son of man

When we have done the dreadful duty of the day

As proud as by our suffering we can

When we have stood for a short while

As trembling voices stutter on

When we are drunk with the tears our mournful friends have cried

There’ll be one less super hero on my side

When the hateful heartless wind

Has scattered to the four points your very last

When the rude winter earth welcomes your death

And the memory of life is all that’s left

When the shadow of the hunting hawk

Races fear across a field

When all is lost, I’m overcome and hope denied

There’ll be one less super hero on my side

When the red fire of the sun

Breaches the horizon and is climbing

Higher in the sky and you can feel by and by

The sap in the sapling rising

When the first bright bud of spring

is tentatively unfurling

and everything bursts to life and sings with pride

there’ll be one less super hero on my side

one less super hero on my side