My Superpower, by Carole Bromley

I can see straight through people,
their bones, what they had for lunch,
whether their heart is kind.

I don’t always use this power;
it’s enough to know I have it,
that there’s nowhere they can hide.

So when I look at you hard like this,
I’m seeing right through you
and out the other side.

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Carole Bromley loves writing poems for children and you will find her poems in her collection, Blast Off!, and in anthologies such as Gods and Monsters, Heroes and Villains, Space, A Poem for every Night of the Year and A Whale of a Time, as well as in magazines such as The Toy, Northern Gravy, The Dirigible Balloon, Paperbound, Little Thoughts Press and Paper Lanterns. Carole won the Caterpillar Prize in 2022.