Wonderland motherland
The soil is deep and heavy
Murky waters ebb and ripple
And I go swimming there
Underneath the dark water-sky
Into the reeds of past indiscretions lie
Memories half memorized
A moratorium of wilting flowers that never die
Wonderland motherland
The place I long to see
The ugly truth that gets dumped into
Pools, deep pools
That even air cannot reach
Should I continue the hunt in the deep?
Cuz if I stay too long I could
Become a ghastly thing aglow
With a body made for a depth like this
and gills that handle muck and filth
But then I’d leave the pretty things
The breeze that hits your face at sea
The foam that dances merrily
Upon the crests of ripples
Making Melodies
And up above, there is no place
For ugly fish with armored plates
In the sun there is nowhere to camouflage
And the sky has no need for shadow fall
Beyond the bright blue
