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Dear Medium: This Joker: Folie à Deux Poem Is For You
In a city where darkness swallows light,
Chaos seeps from every broken street.
Walls crumble, brick by brick,
As laughter echoes through hollow nights.
A face painted in smiles hides the pain,
Eyes hollow, searching for meaning in the void.
The world shifts beneath fragile feet,
Madness stretches its fingers, cold and wide.
Two souls collide in a dance of despair,
Mirrored minds reflecting fractured dreams.
They feed off each other’s delusions,
Building towers of lies to escape the truth.
Gotham groans beneath the weight of silence,
Its people cry out, but no one hears.
Hope flickers like a dying flame,
Extinguished by the winds of greed.
Power resides in empty hands,
The wealthy cling to illusions of control.
But the ground beneath them trembles,
A reckoning rises with the dust.
Laughter, sharp as a blade, cuts through the din,
Slicing the air with a bitter…
