Wonderland motherland

 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