Down The Rabbit-Hole

Something random about my own random little world

Down the rabbit-hole I go,

Where reality slips away...

In this world so troubled and cruel,

I cannot bare to stay.

Cold looks that chill your bones

The "perfect" people so high up on their thrones.

 

Down the rabbit-hole

Where money means nothing

Where being different is irrelevant

Where time flows backwards, and upwards, and sideways

Where matter twists and shapes itself

Regardless of reality's rules.

 

Down the rabbit-hole

My place of healing

My inner chaos

My place of feeling.

Down the rabbit-hole,

I kick Alice out on to the streets,

This is MY place darling,

It's my turn now, don't cheat.

 

The mad hatter,

The Chescire cat,

The Queen of Hearts,

All of whom are my best friends,

To them I run,

Where reality bends.

 

No more looks,

No more judgement,

I slip into the pages of books

and dance with the sludge-men.

All rules go out the window

in the world of my creation

I dance with the jubilant widow,

and cry in my elation.

 

Down the rabbit-hole,

where I need please no one but myself,

The portal to that place,

Nothing more than a dusty book on a shelf.

The pages may yellow,

but the Wonderland remains the same,

Ever changing at my will

Concrete proof that I am insane.

 

Down the rabbit-hole,

where no one will ever find me,

In a place where death is never mourned,

But always very timely.

This place where I go,

It's mine and mine alone,

No one to comment on how I look,

Noone to judge my sarcastic tone.

 

When reality begins to consume me,

It is down the rabbit-hole I go,

Where noone will see me,

And I can be alone.

Reviews

[Damian Alan Gray]

Well, first of all, you immediately landed my attention with the whole Wonderland motif. I am one of the biggest Looking Glass fans you've ever met (note the url to my profile page, here at the WritersCafe: http://www.writerscafe.org/writers/cheshire333/). But, aside from that, this has to be one of the one of the better poems I've read from you. One of the primary reasons I liked it was because of the multi-layered dimensions with which you play. There seem to be many hidden meanings within the poem, and as well it should considering the Wonderland theme. It's one of those poems that begs the reader to peruse at least twice to really understand the subtle meanings.
Really an outstanding job with this one. There are a few spelling and grammatical errors, but overall it is very impressive. I think you've even managed to inspire me to write my own Wonderland poem.

[Winters_Lost_Walk]

wow ur good...i'm quite new, but the Alice in Wonderland theme caught my eye while reading..It's like, getting away from reality..
Amazing...=)

[Mr. Misanthrope]

This poem symbolises what I want my escape from reality to be like. A place where you're free to be open, where 'being different is irrelevant'.
I love Alice in Wonderland for its vast amount of themes. I think it's a writer's main belief, or should be. Maybe you don't see it that way, but I like to see Wonderland as every writer's realm. The bunny being 'time', a countdown until us writers find something solid and happy to latch on to, the Queen of Hearts embodying the world's criticism, and colour drowning Wonderland, a haven of imagination and originality.
A wonderful poem. Well done!

Luke

[jmt8921]

I really liked it, but I'm not sure what I can say that hasn't already be said. The theme of an escape into fantasy is what literature is all about, it's a very powerful message. Keep writing more awesome stuff like this good sir!

[xlynne]

i think that in the line: Where time flows backwards, and upwards, and sideways you should just take out all the ands and say: Where time flows backwards, upwards, sideways it just to me would sound better. no ands to block the flow of time it just goes whichever way. i love when you said: Down the rabbit-hole/I kick Alice out on to the streets/This is MY place darling/It's my turn now, don't cheat. 6 stanza, line 3 the word place doesn't rhyme with hole and it breaks your rhythmic flow temporarily, you may want to fix that. and upon further reading your rhyme pattern seems to change, i don't know if thats a purposely intended thing or not but your poem flowed better i thought with the ABAB rhyme pattern. but still this is a wonderfully creative poem. it has a mystical and enchanting quality to it that pulls the reader in but even through all the fantasy theres human redeeming qualities as well and the reader, myself included, can really relate to the poem and envy the narrator for having a rabbit-hole/escape from the harsh cruelty of the world.
excellent write! major props on the creativity of it!