Author's Note: A poem from Raven to Robin. Also has kind of a story in it. Enjoy!

Don't own the Titans, meanie-heads.

What makes you hunt when you are tired?

What energy urges for you to wake after sleepless nights?

Through dawn and dusk, I've always admired

The passion that drives you, though hard it may bite

What can make you run and jump and kick

And bring down so many unmerciful so fearlessly?

How long do you wait before you wade in the water, so cold and slick

And not even bother as your opened wound bleeds so agonizingly?

Is it the flow of heated blood through your veins?

So long you've possessed, ever since that fateful day?

I know what you're hiding; try as you might in vain

You cannot conceal from one's who's the same

Deep within me, I understand what you feel

It is the same intense torment that haunts me in my dreams

You and I; we cannot escape from what's real

Though wish as we might to fix destiny's broken seams

The pain that burns so achingly in your heart

All the throbbing that tells you to bury it forever

But don't you know it's been planned from the start?

This is your calling; we cannot all say never

So now that you're here, don't hide the sorrow inside

I need you now; please don't take this too bad

We've found each other, and I'd promise not to leave your side

Let's just follow the rhythm of life's ever-playing ballad

Enjoy the comfort and the delight of warmth that all surge

Do you accept the truth? Is everything still unchanged?

See all the honest truth and the bitter reality merge

Things all seem better when viewed at farther range

For once in too many, I now see you smile

But forgive me for this wish, for I also want to see you cry

Now that you're free, you can rejoice and scream while running for miles

And all the tears, sweat and blood were worth it, for you've seen yourself try

Can you now accept that whatever the tomorrow may bring

Is all for the good, all the happiness and the pain?

Let all the fear go, become carefree, for there ahead the sun of your life sings

Let nothing overtake you as you conquer the thunders of rain

So now's the sweetness, and the sound that it makes

When we both let our emotions run around so wild and so free

But to be selfish once, I ask thing one thing, for only my sake

Will you take off your mask? Your eyes I want to see so desperately

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