The Fickle Hand of Fate

living within my head, wonderland 
Alice through the looking glass 
at all my dreams and aspirations 
my rainbow hued world, warm and inviting 
until reality silently clawed into my subconscious, 
reaching out, harshly pulling me into its world 
subdued in stark greys, no vibrancy, just mediocrity 
where all my tomorrows would be the same as my yesterdays
that cold calculating fickle hand of fate, destroyer of childhood 
captor of imagination, steeling vision and staining windows of my soul
Copyright © | Year Posted 2006

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