“Why do we fall?”

The question circles

my brain

as I attempt to bring

my father’s legacy

to justice.

The night descends.

My playboy facade

slips away.

A familiar signal

breaks through the 

shadows of the night.

The city needs me.

Why else 

would a bat 

illuminate the darkness?

All I can do

is try,

one night at a time,

to stop the shadows

from consuming

another innocent life.

I will not rest

until I free my city 

from the darkness

that created me

or until a bullet 

finds my heart.

Inspired by The Dark Knight Trilogy (dir. Christopher Nolan)