Every hero becomes a bore at last.  Who said this?  Emerson, Sachin and Saurav?  It doesn’t matter; what matters is it is true.

What stimulates my interest is that upon hearing this quote for the first time I thought back to my youth.  I was fascinated with becoming better than other men, wanting to be someone’s hero, a hero to girl.  It was such a silly notion, so romantic and needlessly wanted.  Because in time, somewhere between the time I thought of it first and the time I began penning poems I grew to understand that heroes fail too.  I wrote those very words to a young girlfriend I had lost to her own selfish desires. 

I asked myself what I had done to lose her interest, and I thought of my hero complex (for lack of better description), and what I had determined the answer.   I came to understand that if I were a hero, as hard as I tried even heroes fail.  The verse comes to mind, “heroes fail too, you know now they do.” 

Of course she didn’t know that.  My poem was meant to reveal that fact.  Perhaps it was too deep, she never gave me another thought.   If you are curious, I did in fact see her again.  It was 15 years later.  It was non-eventful for me, and I could tell it was embarrassing for her.  The girl I knew at 16 (I was 17) was now a grown woman.  I had my son, she had hers.  We exchanged pleasantries and I walked away from the moment thinking back at how I didn’t want to lose her those many years ago....   more »