by Teresa Burleson

With no dark side,
This Hero 
Left godhood behind.
Wearing flesh
Like yours and mine,
He faced the archfiend,
Without His super powers,
Without a single
Super weapon,
Except
The one called love.

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A free-lancer for over 40 years, Teresa Burleson has credits in over 45 magazines. In 2002, she received the National League of American Pen Women Virginia Liebeler Biennial Grant for Mature Women in the letters category. She is the author of The Pilgrim’s Lyre, published in 2003 and Rose Without Thorns, published in 2013.