My name is Bruce Wayne…and I am the Batman but at what cost.
Nowadays I don't even know who I am anymore.
Whether I'm Batman an unstoppable force of justice or whether I'm Bruce Wayne the eccentric billionaire without a care in the world.
I wear a mask on top of a mask forever acting according to those masks…I am almost never truly myself not even around those people who stuck around long enough to be called true friends.
I have pushed so many people I care about away just to keep them safe or perhaps to keep me safe after all none of my friends have an enemy like the Joker…Joker…if I ever let my guard down and he finds out that Batman cares about someone, I don't think I can handle another incident like Jason's.
Every single day I question whether or not I should hang up my cape and cowl but every time fear makes me put it on again, fear for Gotham, fear for everything that needs the Batman.
Why don't I kill the criminal scum of Gotham and be done with them…it would be a lot easier but it wouldn't be right no matter how much they deserve it after all what will be the difference between me and them after I cross that line. "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster."
I just wish I could fight these monsters and not be afraid of losing those I hold dear even though I never acknowledge how much they mean to me.
For all the times I question some of my choices one thing is always constant and will probably always be constant until the day I die.
I am the Batman and I am alone no matter who stands by my side I will always be alone.
"And if you gaze too long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you."
