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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!

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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.