The Dark Knight Rises Again
(A tribute to The Dark Knight Trilogy)

They punished him for the faults they know not

They banished him for the acts of innocent valour
They jailed him for the thoughts of freedom
They chastised him for his efforts of peace
Thus he remained silently within the walls of the civilised
For it was the demand of the society he wanted to save.

Time doesn’t wait for the peace to expand
In his absence evil outgrew its bounds
Within the gutters and sewers of the city
Evil crept in with nothing to stop
Its numbers and strength kept on increasing
People lived in peace forgetting what’s beneath 

The strike day came and the city was asleep
Within hours the city became a grave of bricks and carcasses
It took seconds to cut it from the world outside
With children seeing aghast the whole city burnt
No one to save it from the certain death it had brought
No one to listen to the silent cries of the dead and wounded

The evil were torturing the innocents without limit
Men and women burnt alive
Children were ripped apart like skins of fruits
The policemen were shot as stray dogs
And those who objected were hanged and were given to the dogs as food
Everybody ran to wherever they could be safe
Some hid so that the evil couldn’t find them
Soon the city had more dead than alive

Hearing the sounds of despair and hopelessness

The jailed bird again wanted to fly

To save its nest from the attack of outcasts

Alas unable to bear anymore the bird broke the cage and flew away

With wings of fire and talons of death

It promised the hopefuls a war of unmeasured rage

The wounded on the ground

Seeing the black bird fly again

Forgot of their pains and wounds

Shouted the cry of joy and courage forgotten

As the dark knight rose with his sword to the sky

A lightning struck the sword as a approval from the heavens.

Along the lightning came the crystal white horse with wings of steel

The dark knight sat on his horse and rode for the evil’s head

As it came down from the tallest of buildings with speed of light

Along with it came a thousand thorns moving at the behest of the sword

Seeing the dark knight coming down many of the hands of evil ran for mercy

With a sword which seemed thousands, there was a cry of no mercy.

As the news of the dark knight reached the evil lord

He commanded his followers to regroup and attack only the knight

With an army of thousand attacking only the knight

It looked as if the dark knight may see the end soon

A thousand insects attacking a single fruit

Lakhs of bees in a single hive

It looked very dismal for the knight

Soon may be the city will be forever covered in darkness

As in awe the people watched a single knight warding of the dogs with no effort at all

Each dog falling down with sounds of death

The dark knight looked like the black disc of the Lord himself

Whoever came near the disc fell on the ground
Just like the petals of a dried up flower

Seeing the failure of his troops the evil lord ordered the tanks to fire

A blue light of unwatchable intensity started erupting from the dark knight

Then there was a blast of blue and all the troops of evil were on the ground

Seeing this a thousand tanks fired on the dark knight

With a single wave of his sword the bombs returned to the tanks 

And all the tanks were obliterated within seconds

Flying helis now surrounded the knight

People started to awe at the meanness of the evil lord.

As the helis started firing, people closed their eyes

When they opened their eyes again

They saw a transparent bubble around the knight

The bullets returning and hitting the helis

Soon a laser started coming from the edge of the bubble

And within seconds the helis were no more

Awestruck at the defeat, the evil lord started to flee

The dark knight then flung his sword

The evil lord turned and the sword went through his heart and into the ground

The evil lord laid on the bed of the sword

With his hands and head bent towards the ground

Seeing this the people started rejoicing

Then came a sound of the conch from the heaven

People closed their ears with their hands

It was the call to return

The sword returned to the hands of the dark knight

Then his white horse with him flew towards the clouds

And soon nor the dark knight or his horse were visible anymore

But came from the sky a white lotus and soon the city got cleaned by the rains.