White, Red, and Black
Smoke and ashes
Stain the sky
A midnight warrior
Returns home
Broken, hollow
Treading in denial
Trying to sear
The image of bone
Knuckle-white, choked in grime
Stark against the rubble
Of Her new grave
From his burning eyes
Into his domain
He lurks, unknowingly
Into his trap
Silent and steeling
Against memory's void
Screens blaring headlines
Montage of disaster
He shuts them off
Swallowing images in black
If only it were all that easy.
White sets the stage.
Weary from death
He marches on
Elevator ride
Eerily creeping
Inching towards
The faithful butler
His veil from the world
Filtering murk
Leaving only truth
Biting, stinging
But truth.
All he has left.
Doors part open
The veil is rent.
Faith bleeding out through gash of red
Scarlet smear on suited chest
Knife hacks clear in moonlit black
Glistening against orbs unseeing
Scream preserved on pleading lips
Glasses trapeze on severed ear
Faith unwavering against the storm,
Smothered under bloody shroud
Eyes meet eyes
Dead ones piercing
Stealing the life of his
Bone of white, stain of red
All he now glimpses
Through the dark nothing
Closing around him
Red scars the mind.
One which notices
Looks to him
Flash of silver
Dripping scarlet
Smile cracked over
Stretching upon seeing
Knight's bare, confirming face
Mephistopheles pinpricks
Illuminate green
Spheres of death
Malice, cunning,
Spite
Shining through
Into the folds
Killer reaches in
Revealing final tool
Of the deathly trinity:
Oil, Blade,
Bullet
Completes the set
Goal in sight
Watching the hero's
Fragile mind shaking
On one last leg
One final hope
Darkest of dreams
Perversely craved
To no one's knowledge
But his
Glaring obvious
In his wide eyes
Unbreakable lust
Need beyond death
Mindless, consuming
But there
To be twisted
Gunshaft travels
Climbing the green
To the side of the
Mad emerald hill
Eyes shining brightest
Before his chosen end
Light switches on
In warrior's mind
Crashing over, flooding through
Intention brought to light
Fear jolting
Senses screaming
PANIC PEAKING
Shot.
Black covers vision.
Lightbulb cracks.
Bone of white, stain of red
Now bullet black
Three colors of madness
Shattering two minds with one trigger
One in gleeful death
The other in living hell
Thus concludes my first dabbling in poetry. I wrote this a while ago, and was going to get a beta on it, but just now plucked up the balls to go ahead and post it. Poetry, as you can tell, ain't my forte, but this idea (inspired from the first 40 seconds of the song "Isengard Unleashed" from The Two Towers soundtrack) was just too powerful for me to pass up. Since the idea speaks in images and emotions, I wanted to try out poetry to see if it would create the more abstract effect I was going for. Did it work, or not so much? Please let me know. I'd love some feedback on this one, good or bad.
If you didn't get it, it's basically this: Joker realized during the car chase that Batman couldn't be Harvey Dent, and the only logical person left who cares for Rachel and fits the bill of Batman is Bruce Wayne. Thus, once escaping the MCU, he sneaks to Bruce's penthouse and stabs Alfred to death for Bruce to find when he returns from the scene of Rachel's death. The dream of his happily ever after with Rachel gone, along with his facade of a normal existence with Alfred gone, leaves Bruce's sanity hanging by a thread (he wasn't the most sane of people to begin with: the guy wears ears after all). However, he has always held onto this image of him being with Joker, and Joker of course picks up on his undercurrent of lust. Therefore he enacts the final blow against his enemy...with his own death. He leaves Bruce with absolutely NO ONE to exist for, and Bruce basically goes crazy.
Because Joker's just sadistically, ingeniously cruel like that.
I guess there's always Riddler...jkjk, just a little inside joke from one of my other fics-in-progress. xD
Oh, and a big thank-you to skyspireskit3 for telling me how to keep lines spaced together properly. I would now be a blubbering mess in the corner, sucking my thumb in the fetal position without your help. ^.^ I now realize the answer to my question exists in the lower right-hand corner of the window I'm typing in...oops...xP