I weep for a world not gone mad
addicted to dreams and impossible things
where logic can be contained
once words speak out unafraid
We are all alike when stripped down to only fear
shrouded in light, but cast in shadow
Go ahead and remove the restraints
as you delve in deliberate madness
Logic is a symptom of this world’s illness
or could it simply be a needful habit of the past
Because once everything is figured out
we will all live happily every after . . . right?
The future’s past being the present
as time is laid out in a row
The measure of time is wasteful
as with each breath I strip away control
I lost count of myself once
or did I simply fail to remember?
Cause if you know where you’ve been
then your memory can tell the future
With curious rhetoric and grammar
the moonlight shows where insanity lies
And seeing that my divorce from sanity is final
it hears the march of madness and finds fault with my mind
Dreadfully bemusing and fractured
the distortion of the looking glass reflected
Falling one by one in the rabbit hole . . .
notions once unconnected seem astonishingly possible
Once a simple pawn, by reason of my sanity
now infected with wonderment and a mind tainted darkly
I find comfort in the Cheshire’s grin,
and feel solace in this nightmare within a dream
Merely a mocking mirror, what lurks on the other side?
I have seen the pending storm stirring
Stalking just beyond the surface
and your apprehension is my reward
I weep for a world not gone mad
addicted to dreams and impossible things
Where logic can be contained
once words speak out unafraid
Author notes
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A contest entry
- Alice in Scaryland by Ari in Wonderland.
433 points, ended August 13, 2008, 7 entries
Silver trophy winner
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I relate a lot to this myself and am glad it's not just me who thinks most of this worlds gone completely lalala. I sometimes just give up urgh.
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Well well worth the silver dear fey. However slight you may consider yourself, I see your heart and mind as quite magical. Clearly as is evidenced here in your write.
"Cause if you know where you’ve been
then your memory can tell the future"
That jumped out at me as I read. Personal reasons I suppose. What with the colors within my own realm slowly returning at a snail's pace. I do so love your personal twist on things as you convey them in a manner which consistently seems so flawless. Your entire write overall expresses the suffocation that too much logic can cause. Such has been the case with my own mood as of late. I think perhaps I could use a divorce of sanity and that may well be my very problem. I do so find some solace in reading your write as well as in the hug and kind thoughts of a dear poetess such as yourself. Thank you so dearly and excellent job in your expressions.
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This was amazing! I really loved your word choice; it almost reminds me of some of the poems in the older poetry books that I've read. I can totally understand the feeling that you're trying to convey here. Overall, your words are just really well chosen, and I especially love the beginning/end. I think your choice to start and end it the same way was a really good move. I also love how you play on fear and sanity.
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Wow! Amazing write! Makes one stop and ponder. Use the brain and think! Thanks for sharing with us. It is a very good piece
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This is an astonishing write, well written and good rhyme.
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