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This summer I went to wonderland, or rather it came to me.

It whispered my name; Come!, It declared beckoning with glee.
 
I thought a land with such a name would be truly filled with wonder.

But all it left me with, was wondering, on and on I did blunder.
 
Through and through I kept wandering, unknowing of the flow of time.

Besides my warped thoughts the world was a quiet mime.
 
Seemingly mocking my every which twist and turn.

Knowing that I would find nothing and soon would give up, sit down, and burn.
 
Eureka! I found it! Victory was mine! 

Though my way out of this confusion, unannounced to me, would follow with a fine.
 
In retrospect I often ponder If I would have taken this way out;
if I had known before the price I would pay.

In its own unique way ;
it had blinded me yet opened my sights without a doubt.
 
There I went on my weary way down this hole that promised me a new beginning.

It followed through, and something did begin; but i was deceived and began thinning.
 
When I was reduced to skin and bones and my heart was weighing me down,
The hole gave me another way out, a way for my emotions to drown.
 
So I did what it told me and removed my heart 

Finally free of my feelings, we were a world apart.
 
Soon I became frightened with my inability to feel.

Back I went to the hole for answers telling it this time the remedy better be real.
 
Smiling with a face that made me shudder and become quite chilled.

He whispered a remedy that rang with terror but with which it was quite thrilled.
 
In hesitation consequence ran through my mind. 

If I had only once listened 

When my eyes began to glisten

To the little part of me that I rarely ever find.
 
Never mind I whispered, with fear and anger, I did what I was told.

My skinned turned a rush of red, but for once I felt like gold.
 
I was in control and or at this time I thought

But I was hand in hand with a demon that I had already fought.
 
This time he promised he was my friend,

But I was still broken and this remedy did not mend.
 
I soon realized that the demon was a ploy,

So I fought him with all I had and kicked him out with joy.
 
Short lived was this joy and I again began to sink,

Though I knew deep down I had to stop listening to the hole and for myself I must think.
 
Onward I travel on my own

Thankfully so

Continually telling the hole no

The demons lips are shut for they are forever sown.
 
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