Mad Wonderland

*for the Alice in Wonderland competition  
   
   
I fell through the hole of your intentions    
where everything was upside down    
and I was never quite the right size,    
yet you insisted on keeping me    
bottled up and locked away.    
   
Cheshire smiling at my misfortune,    
entertained to ease his pain    
and try to cause me guilt    
for not paying enough attention.    
His whispers point me in the wrong direction    
and cause me to doubt    
all that led me here to begin with.    
   
He was of course successful,    
considering he was all the sense    
this mad world held.    
Especially considering    
my own white rabbit kept running,    
calling out for Maryanne,    
who'd obviously been in his cottage    
a time or two.    
   
All the while he asked my ring size    
and sent me cards    
claiming to be the King of Hearts,    
when he was the Knave all along.    
Still, we played our games,    
though the pieces constantly changed    
their places on the board,    
so we never had a hope of winning.      
   
Finally I faced the beast,    
heart pounding,    
tears pouring.    
I let go my fears    
and stopped myself from seeing    
only the reflections I wanted to see.    
I stepped through back to home,    
the mirror shattering behind me,    
and I haven't looked back.    
   
   
...well hardly...