Superman Writing Doodle

Randomly wrote this up a while back. I wanted to write something that I felt like Clark would say as an explanation for why he does what he does.

When I was a kid, I started to see things. I don’t mean like hallucinations or anything, I just started to…to see things different, I guess. Different colors sometimes, or right through to something else on the other side of the wall. I didn’t know what “infrared” or “ultraviolet” or “X-ray” meant at the time. But I saw it all. I could see the whole world through that weird little lens of mine. Whenever I looked at a person or an animal or anything living, they seemed to glow. Sometimes I’d go up to the roof of our barn and look out over the town and the fields and they all just…there was just so much light. The light of every living thing I could see.

Then as I got older I started to notice more things that I saw. Not all of them good. Quite a few of them very bad. And I started to notice more and more when those lights would dim and go out. I could hear things too, by this time. All the pain, all the strife…all of it.

And I think that’s why I do what I do.

I know the world is broken. You don’t need to tell me that twice. I can see it. I can hear it. You think the media heaps it on? I can see more pain and suffering than the Planet alone could print in a minute.

But it doesn’t have to stay that way. We can’t just throw our hands up and accept it. We’ll never be able to fix everything. But I think we should at least try to do what we can. We can’t just sit by and sink into the darkness.

Or at least I can’t. Not when I can see and hear it. I can’t just have all…all of this and not do anything.

Comments

[Scholarly-Cimmerian]

It's a good piece to my mind. ^_^