Disclaimer: I wrote this for a library poetry competition, I do not own A.M.A.

Smoke everywhere the fire it raged.

It raged and it fell,

In the innocent bedroom of Alice Liddell.

Her tea friends they woke her, she ran through the hall,

Hearing her parental’s asphyxiate call.

They told her to flee, to leave the building post haste.

She obeyed of course, there was no time to waste.

Throwing herself out a window,

Hitting the snow she passed out as her house went up. Inferno!

Many years later, in an asylum insane and matured,

Silent and unmoving from what she’d endured.

Alice forgot about the land she created

Never knowing the changes trouble persuaded.

Until she was visited by a rabbit of white,

He looked rather different at least to her sight.

Alice fell down his hole shrieking out loud,

This time her dress didn’t puff up like a cloud.

She landed hard, bounced on her rear,

Then she looked round and wondered” what am I doing here?”

The rabbit, her summons, disappeared in a small

Overly cramped crack in a wall.

Cheshire cat greeted her then with a swish of his tail

A wave of his paw on a body quite frail.

She had to pursue the fluffy long eared companion

So she would know why her presence began in this ugly land of darkness and gloom,

Why she had left her very small room.

She soon learned her answer as she explored her new version

Of wonderland creatures became a diversion

She defeated the Tweedles, the centipede, and the mad hatter too!

The duchess was fond of mock turtle stew.

Red queen stole her sanity, made the world what it was,

So Alice destroys her, twice, yes she does.

Her sanity back, her cat in her arm

A suitcase in the other and now safe from harm.

Alice, newly Alice the savior smiled, felt great

As she finally left out that old dark black gate.