My Time In The Bat Cave (by James Leland Ludeau III from Lafayette,LA)

Like a masked crusader you flew into my life

Promising happy endings

Sterile & cold it quickly became

I was messier than you liked

You tied me up & stole my soul

But you never conquered my heart

Extinguished my fire

I walked the wire

My hands bound by chains

Unable to run

But my soul remained unchained

I walked the highwire 

Balancing myself between Heaven & your hell

Clouds above

Flames below

Until I held my breath & jumped

The fire threatened to consume me

But I'd lived enough hell with you that God rescued me

I survived as a Lion always does

And in my 9th life at the 11th hour

I fought my way out of your grasp

Kicked you in the jaw

Drew blood

Knocked away your mask

& beneath it was a void

There's was nothing there to love

So I kissed your bloody lips goodbye

Sealed the deal

Pistol whipped you into submission

My hands covered in your blood

You still promised to be my hero

But you were the only person I needed rescuing from

There's a storm coming

& when it hits you'll never be same

Someday the meek shall inherit the earth

But the weak

The weak will succumb to the flames of wrath.