Cape On The Chair

Mask on crooked

Shoelace capes

Backyard skyline

Plastic crates

We jump off fences

Call it flight

Tiny bruises

Big spotlights

We don’t need a signal in the sky

We’re saving little worlds each time we try

Every scraped-up knee

Every “follow me”

Makes a hero out of ordinary lives

We don’t always get the landing right

But we’re still running toward the fight

Heartbeats in armor

Hands that shake and swear

Superheroes

With the cape on the chair

Text at midnight

“You awake?”

You say “I’m breaking”

I say “wait”

I bring ice cream

You bring tears

We trade secrets

Trade our fears

We don’t need a signal in the sky

We’re saving little worlds each time we try

Every scraped-up knee

Every “follow me”

Makes a hero out of ordinary lives

We don’t always get the landing right

But we’re still running toward the fight

Heartbeats in armor

Hands that shake and swear

Superheroes

With the cape on the chair