Poems
for

The

Batman

20

I can only breathe so much life into these dark passages; only you can make them truly come alive

See me night after night, beat the deranged into submission, what a good role model I am

Ask you all to champion justice, live clean, yet here I am soiling the streets with blood

So I question thy behavior, getting answers that heighten my confusion, and blacken a dark soul

So I ode to you in hopes of you choosing my path to legend and immortality, awareness, redemption

Awaken me to understand that the joker, and penguin, riddler and cat women and Batman are human

For is the only way to truly be human is to embrace it? like you would a crying child, a pleading mother

Am I above the law? Just because my soul hides behind a mask of secrets, and a suit of lies

I can only breathe so much life into these dark passages, only you can make them truly come alive

What's alive to me? Do I smell roses and feel a breeze? Do I wander a patch and envelope?

Help me do, do a butterfly, sing with a cricket, dance with a swaying flower and laugh with a bird

Do you understand yet? That for me human has left the equation a long time ago, all that's left if hurt

For I do not see human foes, I see animals, soulless beasts like myself that need to be splayed,

Dismembered, disembowel and beheaded, cast out and pissed on as we burn at the gates of hell

Hench I cannot win the war, if I am fighting on the inside of my enemy, killing only myself in turn

I am a sham, a nothing a no body, fighting for the cause, and fighting myself, maybe I am the bad guy

I can only breathe so much life into these dark passages, only you can make them truly come alive

Take this ode, give it to all that will have it, have them come to me, live with me, hope with me

Help me to hang up the lie, or wear it proud, make me understand which one is truly needed

Which one I truly am, and if I am both human and beast, help me live with them both, in harmony

Once again human has left the equation a long time ago for me, yet one part of me wants it back

When you shine the light do I come? When you plead and beg do I answer? Yes I do

So now I beg you for your help, you to save me, or what's left of me, to be my champion

You don't have to thank me, you don't have to shake my hand, just smile and I will understand

I can only breathe so much life into these dark passages it up to you to make them come alive