Cotton Avenger

Steel can be too cold to be comforting,

and you need to have the right convictions for crusading.

Not everyone is called to perform orbit reversing heroics

or other red carpet worthy feats.

My stitches are the great-grandchildren

of thousands of practice threads joining scraps to buttons.

Each ancestral seam holds the lore of my origin story.

 It’s a far humbler tale, filled with earthbound bits

better suited to scaling trees instead of skyscrapers.

But to the hands that hold me, each homely stitch is a grace note,

bringing reassurance in a too big world.

The familiar fabric is the only talisman capable 

of shepherding in rest, and perhaps dreams of adventure.

Doll created by Zoe Swindell 

Song Choice: Believe It Or Not (Theme from the Greatest American Hero)

This two for one prompt. The Toads provided inspiration with this weekend's Play It Again theme, and I chose Dolls, Revisited . The doll that I chose to write about pictured above. He looked a bit like a superhero to me, reminding me of one I watched on a TV sitcom back in the 80's. I combined it with A Dash of Sunny's Prompt Night's Topic: Imperfection is Beautiful.