[ WP ] Everyone has superpowers but the only way to maintain them is by murdering

*Super Girl* by W. Poe 
 
 There is a limit, they said, 
 
 To the power of flight. 
 
 Not gravity, but the weight of a life. 
 
 There is a limit, they said, 
 
 To lifting a car, 
 
 To shifting a form, 
 
 To levitating a jar. 
 
 The weight of a life. 
 
 Each trick had a price, 
 
 Each talent, each gem, 
 
 They needed the guilt, 
 
 That weight, that pain. 
 
 Susanna could hear voices inside, 
 
 It was so easy to read a mind. 
 
 As a child the power came without cost, 
 
 She could slip through the sables, 
 
 Make memories mind, 
 
 But after eighteen? It was the cost of her kind. 
 
 It did n't matter who died, 
 
 As long as you felt the loss of the life. 
 
 She hunted her food, she cooked it herself, 
 
 But eventually she stopped seeing the pain, 
 
 In the animal as anything left to be gained. 
 
 So she set her sights on humans, 
 
 She invented a lie. 
 
 If they had sin in their heart, 
 
 Then they had to die. 
 
 She ran out of madmen, 
 
 In her small little town, 
 
 So she crept through the city, 
 
 Feeling their thoughts, 
 
 She refused to go deaf, 
 
 To the universe. 
 

