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Too old for a hero

by HappiestPoet

Published June 28, 2025

E - Everyone

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You’re too old to play hero!
Don’t you understand?

You know nothing of the world!
Aren’t you afraid?

Your heart wavers... It is too weak!
Are you scared?

I control you, but not me!
Are you feeling sad?

I gave you a choice.
So what will it be?

A lifetime of misery.
Or a future to be.

Comments & reviews · 3
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BrownMatter
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BrownMatter wrote a review Review · Jul 4, 2025

Thanks for sharing your works, it;s beautiful.
From what I percieve, I think it is the head right? I might be wrong- but it resonates to me, and it feels like the brain/mind is ridiculing the heart to me. Maybe not ridiluling, but surley trying to scare the core... Anyway, I'm very grateful to read your work :]

JustinPikachu007554 wrote a review Review · Jun 28, 2025

For a short poem, this honestly kind of hits home for me. I feel like I'm always having the internal battle about whether to stand up for myself or others. My heart always tells me it's the right decision, but my head always says otherwise. Unfortunately, I'm like a majority of the human population and tend to listen to my head. I love that such a short work can have such deep meaning. I hope that I find more of your work in the future providing the same striking impact that this work has.

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WinnyWriter
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WinnyWriter wrote a review Review · Jun 28, 2025

Thanks for sharing this poem! The title was intriguing, and I see you've brought that theme of being a hero into the poem itself. It seems like this piece is expressing conflicting pressures against a person. Perhaps it's the sentiment of someone who is made to feel inadequate for everything they do or try to do.

By the time I got to the end of the poem, I wasn't sure how the material connected with the hero theme you began with. Maybe I just need to think about it more. Or maybe you're trying to capture the feelings of a hero who has failed, or who perceives himself/herself as having failed - or possibly someone who wants to be adequate, but feels daunted by the journey.

I appreciate the consistency in the format. It's divided up into two-line stanzas, and it is visually clear and uncluttered. I noticed just one spelling error: in the line "your heart weavers," I think you meant to say, "your heart wavers." This would be the correct spelling. But I got the meaning in spite of the spelling error, and it's a really simple thing to fix!

Thanks again for sharing this, and keep up the good work!

Thanks for the review, I fixed the spelling error.

I was trying to capture the feelings of a failed hero. Or more specifically someone who saw themselves as a hero but has been proven wrong. But I can see how it certainly gets confusing at times.

Thanks for the review!



History repeats itself. First as tragedy, second as farce.
— Karl Marx