The Tao Of Batman

Chapter I:

Is this justice
For crimes committed?
Or is this revenge
For offenses against me?
Justice and revenge
Are separated
By the blade
Of a razor.

Chapter II:

Peace
And justice
And deepest, darkest
Revenge
As sweet
As peace.

Chapter III:

The fruit of justice
Satisfies.
The fruit of revenge
Brings greater
Hunger.

Chapter IV:

Justice found
Outside the law
Justice is societies
Revenge
They need me, they hate me.

Chapter V:

Light out
Of darkness
And whiteness
Without blackness
A world full of
Color
And shades of gray.

Chapter VI:

Darkest without
Light
Nothing
Nothingness
Emptiness
Light is life
Darkness is life
Light is darkness
Without
Struggle.

Chapter VII:

The Joker and I
Are one
We are two faces
Of the Tao
He needs me
I need him
We are nothing
We are Two-Face

Chapter VIII:

Riddle me this
Batman.
What is everywhere
And nowhere?
What is and is not?
What is found by not looking?
What kills and
Saves life?
What brings peace
And strife?
The Tao.

Chapter IX:

The Tao in me,
Through me
Kicks
Strikes
Glides
Swings
Kills evil
Yet, I have never
Killed
Nor will I ever
Kill
I am killing
Evil.

Chapter X:

Gotham
In darkness
In me
Dead metal and asphalt
Crawling with life
And hopes,
And fears
And darkness waiting
In me.

Chapter XI:

I will never die
But I am dying
I am
A shadow
And a world
That screams
For justice, not mercy
For the end
That eternally comes.

Chapter XII:

My car and I
Are two yet one
My suit and I
Are a shark

I am as a Chimera,

Many things yet always one.
My heart and I
Are a shadow
Now
Avenging dark deeds.



Chapter XIII:

The sounds
Of the city beneath me
In darkness
Resound
In my head
As I search
For peace…