The Sun Won’t Shine (2004)

On this day the sun won’t shine..,

Apollo will shred a hero’s tear.

Our children will weep

And grown men will cry.

On this day the world…

Will feel a little colder.

The rainbow’s colours

Will seem a little duller,

And the promise of tomorrow

Will feel, some how, tainted.

Superman is dead,

Long live Christopher Reeve.

He played the hero’s hero on film,

Never realizing

He was even a greater hero off screen.

He flew in the skies of my mind,

In a wheel chair, not a cape.

He deflated the bullets of self pity

To become more of a man

Then most of us will ever be.

He gave us hope,

He enabled our dreams.

On this day the sun won’t shine..,

Apollo will shred a hero’s tear.

But tomorrow

Will shine all the brighter.

Tomorrow I will see

All of the rainbows colours.

For a true hero had passed by

The echoes of my life…

And, in his name,

Many more will follow.

I can only hope

They will have his grace.

(Chris –superMAN-- Reeve

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