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Thomas Timbs
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00:00this isn't about who can hit harder not today the dispute den has brought us
00:16together for something else a chance to talk not punch Nolan I know what it's
00:23like to be alien to carry expectations across galaxies but the way you twisted
00:28your purpose that's not strength that's surrender to something you were supposed
00:34to rise above you sound like a child reciting bedtime stories purpose isn't
00:39something you rise above Clark it's something you fulfill you were raised to
00:43coddle weakness I was born to correct it you and I both know what power does to
00:48a man the difference is I never pretended it makes me human I was raised by people
00:54who taught me that strength doesn't entitle it obligates you had a family a
00:59son a planet willing to love you and still you crushed it beneath your heel
01:06the moment it inconvenienced your mission they don't revere you they rely on you
01:10and that's how they control you I watched civilizations crumble because their
01:15strongest refused to lead you protect them like fragile ornaments hoping they'll
01:19love you back I guided my world because I knew they wouldn't I protect them
01:24because they deserve the chance to become better you didn't lead your world
01:28you judged it condemned it and when your son questioned you you beat him until
01:35the blood washed away the doubt that's not guidance mark needed to learn what the
01:40universe demands compromise is a myth mercy dilutes legacy I didn't strike him to
01:47punish I struck to awaken you see bruises I see lessons and if earth
01:52survives what's coming it won't be because of your hope it'll be because
01:55someone prepared it to suffer you taught your son to surrender before he even
01:59understood what resistance meant I've faced tyrants invaders creatures that
02:05devour sons but none of them frightened me like a father who justifies
02:10brutality with prophecy you didn't prepare your son erase number I offered him
02:16truth he clung to fantasy you act as though heritage can be undone by
02:21sentiment he is Viltrumite as am I as you could have been if only you'd shed this
02:28naive allegiance to a species that barely understands the stars let alone what
02:33guards them heritage isn't destiny Krypton fell because it couldn't change I swore
02:40earth wouldn't follow that path you use your bloodline like a crown but I see it
02:45for what it is a chain strength without compassion creates nothing worth saving you
02:52you survived a war I chose to end them end them or postpone them you refuse to acknowledge what
02:59strength demands you play savior among insects you perform humanity but you'll outlive them all and when
03:05the last one falls you'll finally see what I've known since birth only those who rule endure the
03:11rest are footnotes in dust then let me be a footnote if it means they get to write their own stories I've seen
03:18humans at their worst greedy violent afraid but I've also seen them sacrifice for strangers fight for
03:27dignity build in the ashes you never gave them the chance to surprise you your sentimentality is a luxury of
03:34peace you've never ruled you've never had to make peace with necessity I don't mourn the lives I took
03:40I measure them against the lives they would have wasted that's the burden of power you act like you
03:46carry weight but every decision you made lifted something off you guilt empathy doubt I carry them
03:55all every failure every name I couldn't save I wear that weight because it matters otherwise what's
04:04the point of being strong at all the point Clark is not to feel better about yourself it's to survive
04:10the truths others won't face I don't feel guilt I feel clarity every empire that endured was built by
04:17those willing to act without apology you romanticize struggle I replaced it with progress one command at a
04:25time I've rebuilt cities after men like you turned them into monuments of obedience I didn't win with
04:31heat vision or brute force I won by helping people believe they could stand without me
04:36you tear out the spine and call it evolution I need order order requires decisions the crowd will never
04:43understand I watched you on your pedestal always waiting always hoping but the day will come when
04:48earth won't need a savior it'll need a ruler and no one will ask your permission then they'll find another
04:54way they always do even without me that's the difference between us I don't want them to need
05:02me you need to be needed you crave dominion to hide the fear that without control your purpose
05:09collapses that's not vision that's desperation wrapped in ideology be careful Clark you're describing
05:17yourself you watch every street every heartbeat you hover because you have to you trust them as far as
05:22your hearing can reach don't pretend you aren't afraid of what they become without your shadow looming
05:27the only difference is I admit what I am I hover because I care and when I descend it's to catch
05:36not control you watch from above waiting to correct I watch to understand I've knelt beside dying soldiers
05:45and held broken fathers not because I had to but because they matter you only descend to remind them
05:53who owns the sky they never owned it to begin with you speak of empathy as if it's currency it's not
05:59it's liability I descend to shape to forge not everyone deserves a gentle hand sometimes survival demands
06:07cruelty the sooner you accept that the fewer illusions you'll have to bury with them I'd rather bury illusions than
06:13bury humanity you speak of forging but you only hammer down I've watched people fail fall betray
06:22and still I return because some of them rise some of them change you never waited long enough to see
06:30that you wrote them off like expired tools because sentiment slows evolution you keep returning because
06:37you hope I leave when I know I've ended worlds where compromise meant extinction earth isn't special
06:42then come for it but don't expect surrender not from me not from them you mistake survival for
06:51obedience but when the sky darkens and everything feels lost these people fight I've seen it not for
06:59glory not for orders but for each other defiance is noise before collapse and when it fades I'll be the
07:08one writing what comes next you think I don't understand strength I am strength unflinching untouched you're
07:15still playing savior in a world that doesn't need saving it needs shaping and history won't remember who
07:21gave hope only who won I fight because even one child waking up free is worth facing giants you'll rule ashes I'll
07:30guard what's left of the living and when they rise you'll hear their heartbeat louder than yours ever was then
07:38guard them watch them fracture under freedom pretend your sacrifice held meaning while their bones line the road to
07:44progress you'll fall first Clark and when the dust settles they'll build what I promised them all along a world where
07:51mercy doesn't get in the way of survival
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