A feeble attempt at writing, inspired by and partly borrowed from Batman, about being a vigilante. The writing is not entirely fictional. Hope it isn't too bad.
When it happened to me, I was shattered
All sense had left my life
I hardly know humans as people
But suddenly I knew the world
It was hard and cold and dark and lawless
Its face was fierce and bestial
The only face I had with which to glare back at it
Was utterly inadequate
You think you know fear
You think you know fear now, with just me to get between you and the infernal nightmare
But you don't know fear half as well as it knows you
You can conquer fear
If you are willing to look at it for what it is
Few are, few ever truly gaze into their fear, their pain
Fewer still embrace it
I don't enjoy fear but I have learned to respect it
But I still do not have a face as feral as the one life has shown me
I learned that as long as you can choose who you are in the world,
You can choose to call yourself sane
The world is not particularly sane
Destiny is the elusively simple matter of becoming who you are
Evil emanates from every heart I see
I want to make their path as difficult and illogical a choice as mine
I want to strike terror in the very core of their hearts
I have already chosen the face I will wear to meet life's gaze
I will rend and rive apart their world
To save the helpless I will bring down the mighty
I will be a relentless inexorable vengeance
A ruthless guardian who strikes without mercy
A scourge that washes away the tears of the innocent
With the blood of the guilty
I will make them pray and make them pay.