The Tweedle Two

I looked forward to bringing the Tweedles back. I've always like them. I tried to give a different look at them without making them too out of character.

The first thing for which Alice did search

Was found in the oddest place.

Food she did obtain from a white birch,

Apples gathered at its base.

 

Once her appetite she had abated

She realized she was not alone.

Two men she knew to be related

sat together on a bench made of stone.

 

Upon hearing her story the Tweedles did insist

That accompanying her was necessity.

Though Alice was unwilling they did persist

Reminding her of a promise in voices joyful and witty.

 

So together they did travel through country and town

Removing their fetters along the way.

Alice assumed the chains slowed them down

Though happiness they did not portray.

 

Close they continued to walk to her wonder

As though together they were still bound.

So this intimacy she began to ponder,

A brotherly love deep and profound.

 

Upon the question hearing at last,

Tweedle Dum and Dee did stare.

And answer with amusement unsurpassed.

"Born a pair were we and remain we will a pair."

 

Together, she found, they always had been

With hardly another to invade their world.

"But", Dee had to admit with a grin,

"Our curiosity you've unfurled."

 

"Not from this world, you must be."

Dum did say with confidence

"Contrary-wise, from some heavenly world." replied Dee.

Though Alice assured them this was nonsense.

 

Freckled faces smiled at her

With knowing looks in bright blue eyes.

"We believe", they did concur,

"You're an angel in mortal guise."

 

Their faith in her she found to be true.

Though she argued furiously,

Their amusement only grew.

Her eyes they searched curiously.

 

Unable to convince them otherwise

Sleep she did pursue.

Her angelic light, they did surmise,

Shone unseen, pure and true.

 

Late in the night she did awake

To the sounds of anger and unrest.

Tweedle Dee's shoulder she did shake

Though at first he did protest.

 

When at last they rose, sleep clinging to their eyes

A scream rang through the silent night.

They shuddered at the sound of painful cries

And a woman's laughter of delight.

 

In darkness and haste they did dress

And to the window they did flee.

The Tweedle two pulled with little success

For nailed shut the window seemed to be.

 

Before they could react, the door swung to

And there the Queen did stand.

Soldiers by her came marching through,

Swords and rifles in hand.

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[Snow White Queen]

Another really good one. These are all pretty good.