Wonderland - revised

Life surrounds me; sounds confront me

Little do I hear trumpets sound

Likewise of many buzzing bees

Across the forest, I make rounds

Silence makes a pitter-patter

While a raindrop hits the wet grass

Natures lullaby quite dapper

As silence puts me in a trance

It’s eerie now, vastly unreal

Heart far above me, in the sky

A fantasy starts; my skin peels

Transformed I am a butterfly

Free of my cocoon, free to fly

This is my chance for a new life

Wings constricted, I wonder why

My feet won’t leave the ground; a knife

Still the trance overwhelms my heart

Trying eagerly to leave ground

Yearning to be long past this part

Despite lack of music; no sounds

My heart now understands and knows

Standing in the deafening quiet

My vast knowledge begins to show

Brain, heart and spirit in riot

I slowly lay my head back down

Again to wake; reality

To the dreary woods I do frown

There is no actuality