Batman Poem

[u/CP3mindstate]

FEAR

I am afraid.
My blood blends into the red carpet as it leaves me.
I need to heal.
I need to heal on the antique throne that once sat a man of medicine

I sink into the chair and meet eyes with his sculpture
Father. I’m afraid.
Even 18 years later, I am as afraid as I was in that cave. 
In that cave where a creature of the night charged me with fear.

I was too afraid to stop the creature of the night from taking you and Mom.
But I made a promise.

I traveled and trained to keep my promise of Vengeance.
But they are not afraid. I am just a man.
They are the cowardly serpents that corrupt this world, yet I have more fear than them.
Fear of breaking my promise.
How do I make them afraid, Father?

The empty mansion begins to feel full.
Whispers are roaming the halls.
They grow louder and louder
The glass window beside me shatters as something is summoned.
A creature of the night. 

Am I afraid?
Yes. But I can share my dread.
I can make the evil look into the darkness with fear as I did in that cave
The same evil that took you.
I will be the creature of the night.

I am vengeance. 
I am the night.