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End of the Game

Synopsis: A series of poems focusing on the Dark Knight's Rogues and if they were about to kill Batman, what their thoughts would be.

Author's Notes:

* Sin Tzu appeared in the videogame Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu. However, I consider him one of Batman's major foes so I am including him in these poems.

Enjoy!

Sin Tzu

There are many keys in the world

Someone natural, others artificial

Keys to the physical plane, and keys

To realms fare beyond comprehension

I am a key master of sorts, my masters

Are the spiritual advisors and my keys

Are the Yanjin, the mental discipline

Through which I access and use the keys to war.

I exist for warfare, for the Yanjin.

It is my purpose in life, my reason

For existing in a world that possesses

Few challenges as it once did.

A massacre here, a route there, there was

No one worthy to engage the warmaster

As skilled as myself and the spirits I serve.

That is why you are such a fascinating foe

And why I haven chosen to wage war against you

You too arose from darkness, that I see

And we both battle for our causes.

But I battle for a greater cause

One in which I have been successful

Every single time for millennia.

So stand fast my worthy opponent

For it is the end of the game.