there was a dancing bear, balancing on a ball while the ringmaster cracked a whip and called to the crowd;
Tigerlily ran through the forest, cawing at the birds as she passed, while Captain Hook stalked behind her, using his two hands to wind a clock until it spun on it's own;
a boy met a girl and a girl met a girl and a boy met a boy and they all lived happily ever after;
the world came to a slow crawl, freezing the smiles and the joy and the happy tears on our faces;
Alice grew old in Wonderland and played bridge with the Red Queen;
a baby laughed for the first time over and over and fairies were born again and again;
love paid the bills;

this is what i did today: dreamed.

If you loved the thought of me as much as you love the air you breathe
with the passion of a hundred lights of night fire
with the greenness of a parlor fireplace

If you waited for what is clearly yours within the skin that traps me
with the tenacity of a tigerlily
and the brutality of a butterfly

If you wanted what lies beneath the cold hard marbles beneath my eyelids
with shyness befitting a lion
and coldness that wisps from deep within the earth

If you did
why are you
so far
away