Howdy people. My first post on this site is going to be a bit of poetry... technically a song, but I don't have the capacity to get the instrumental done anytime soon, so I figured I might as well post it. Hope you all like...
Disclaimer: I don't own Batman... but if I did, I'd license the villain names and costumes to real criminals. On the down low, of course. You know readership on that villain will bounce up significantly if he's on the news...
Gotham City
Where the sky is so dark
And the criminals young
Where the villains are famous
And most heroes unsung
There can be found
A man of the night
Who fights the crime spree
Hoping for justice, people hold their breath
It comes from a man still mourning other's death
No where else to be found
The last hero in town
In Gotham City
With psychos running rampant
And the public in fear
With the news giving nothing
But bad news to hear
With the town held hostage
By a freak with a coin
No one else will you see
The cops have tried and they have failed
The real villains seem to have the cops prevailed
A man of the night
Who continues the fight
For Gotham City
The Joker's about to gas Town Hall
Bright in the sky is the hero's call
But while he saves Mayor Hill from the cruel death smile
There's a child
At least one child
Who dies at the hands of a father, drunk and wild
Too much crime
Can't save everyone every time
In Gotham City
So the mobs shoot each other
And innocents die
It eventually falls
Under his watchful eye
But he can't predict it
He can't protect them
Preemptively
And so he tries, and yet he fails
Too much of a fight for one man it entails
But he must continue
Through crushed bone and sinew
For Gotham City
Till he meets a henchman's young one
Who he saves from the bullet of the Black Mask's gun
One youth who learns the right and wrong and will not aid the crime
Just one child
At least one child
Who learns not to become something vile
It's a step in his favor
A victory to savor
For Gotham City
So when he jumps from a building
To protect the weak
When he beats up the crime lords
Till they're too hurt to speak
He's secure in the belief
one day there'll be no more
Joe Chills running free
To save them all from his horrid fate
To stop them from becoming vengeance incarnate
He'll keep up the task
Be the man in the mask
Saving Gotham City