Spider-Man: Homecoming Poem by Denis Martindale

What makes a hero, just a suit?
A costume or a cape?
Or just a hulk, some muscled brute,
A giant or an ape?
Or mutant powers, gamma rays,
Or chemicals gone bad?
Or tragedies you can't erase
That make you feel so sad?

Or just revenge that turns to good?
A vigilante team?
A friend who guards the neighbourhood?
A nerd who's got a dream?
Or genius or scientist?
Some rich guy who still cares?
Or maybe an evangelist
Who answers his own prayers?

A hero could be any guy!
Just one guy on his own...
Who doesn't have the wings to fly
And yet goes it alone...
Who has the guts to face the worst,
Until the battle's won...
Who's sometimes blessed and sometimes cursed,
Yet tries to get things done!

Yeah, he's the guy who perseveres,
Who simply won't give in,
Who won't give up despite his fears,
He simply has to win...
He saves the city, town or street,
He fights to save the day...
Yeah, he's the guy I'd like to meet!
He's SPIDER-MAN, O.K.! ?


Denis Martindale July 2017.


The hero poem is based on the new film called
Spider-Man: Homecoming starring Tom Holland
and Robert Downey Jr and Michael Keaton...