I fear nothing.

That is a statement that I confidently can say,

I came to the city,

A few months ago,

I came to seek a life,

I came to find some smiles,

I came to spread some joy,

Little did I know what lay in store for me.

Though I thought I was funny,

Nobody laughs,

I thought that I was innocence,

But I am a scapegoat,

I was naive,

Now I know too much.

Why me?

What did I do to deserve this?

I took a job from the unsavory sort,

No one else would hire, 

For the quick funds I needed,

A baby is on the way.

My wife was shot,

She dies in the hospital,

I no longer need the money,

I cannot get out of the job with my life,

It is ok,

I don’t want to live beyond it anyway.

We are robbing a chemical factory,

Cash bonds worth millions, 

I was supposed to act,

As the mastermind,

We cross the catwalks to the office,

The gas was intoxicating.

The shadow appears in front of me,

The mask that I wear,

Makes it hard to see what it is exactly,

The two that I am with,

Start fighting the shadowy figure,

One knocks into me,

I fall off the catwalk.

I feel the warm liquid,

It’s suffocating,

I search for air,

I try and undo the mask,

I sink to the bottom of the vat,

I feel the sucking of the drain.

I awaken,

I don’t know where I am,

I don’t know how many days I have been asleep,

I throw up,

The green ooze that comes out is disgusting,

I begin to laugh,

It is joy at being alive.

My smile is big,

I grin like an idiot,

I feel my face,

It is numb,

I am in the dark,

And I am laughing,

And it echoes in the dark.

I fear nothing.