The Lewis Carol

The Lewis Carol

Through fractured glass you are looking

Unafraid of any twisted images reflecting

The original within the glass no mistaking

Backward impressions that mirror my past

She who I thought I was

But I am not... stands aghast

Our sketches of my destiny did not last

Hero I call to you through the looking glass

I like the Queen of Hearts my throne did pass

My marriage like a house of cards a fallen mass

Come slay the Jabberwock fierce with claws

My dangerous foe with your vigilante law

His own defeat rendered 'neath his mighty jaws

Mome Raths when they seek to grabe beware

Path to be swept by a choice and a dare

Listen and heed my warning with care

I sit with the Mad Hatter at tea

Seek to create my own written plea

With ink drawn from my own tear sea

I twist the phrase and scramble the word

Invite you to destroy the beast with a sword

My Champion would you with steel armor gird?

To share a life with me within the looking glass

The place where dreams not reality come to pass

Ringed in daisies sleep surrounded by sweet scent grass

Come and dine on peppered tarts and cherry ale

Please read to me the Carpenter and Walrus Tale

Stories of months with the letter R and oysters in half shell

You can find me painting white roses in my garden red

A very merry un-birthday each day to be shared

Love and poetry reflected in us our images mirrored

C. Lin Rawlins Revision March 2002©