Chasing Rabbits

Chased a rabbit out of my surreal mind

While you were sobbing over dreams unkind

Fell into a chasm of evanescing memories

Wrapped in recursive boxes with shiny binds

 

The white knight keeps stabbing my mind

While the red queen is a lady most unkind

The mad-hatter cries over things you pined

The stars melting in my time-warped mind

 

Mist laden roads promise no retreat

Your mind delirious in its feverish beat

Long dead souls crying in this grim street

Vacant eyes looking for their lovers to meet

 

The mist of your mind infects my mind’s eye

Lost in this strange place of no goodbyes

Searching for Alice but her memory now dies

Dries your tears as ballistic time flies

 

Took the red pill and felt alive in death

Heard the raucous noise of your dying breaths

Felt Alice running through my mind’s minefields

As the land reversed to show the realm beneath

Reviews

[Sel Whiteley]

I love it. How you take a children's story (albeit a very surreal and, at times, pervese one) and make so horrific. You capture so much here. My favourite lines were: "The stars melting in my time-warped mind" and "Long dead souls crying in this grim street." Stunning!

[AmandaN]

Wow fabulous take on the madness of wonderland

[An owl on the moon]

A stunning, mind-blowing dive into the madness of the world... How the reality of things is tainted with the enchantments of the surreal song of Wonderland's recollections. Such a vivid write!

[SprunkedAlien]

Nice! Your poems have a hypnotic rhythm, and this one's no exception.

[Marie]

I love the way you channeled "Alice in Wonderland". Lewis Carroll would be surprised.

[Moriarty]

Hmmmmm a rather diff take on alice in wonderland...so troubled...yet so true...sid try writin sumthin happy for once...