I've been wondering a while about posting this one here due to its length and perhaps content. It's not finished, but I'm hoping that I'll be able someday to get the last few stanzas in.
"The way is clear," the rabbit said,
"I will guide your way.
There is no fear, no sorrow, no death.
There's only fun today."
So Alice jumped into the hole
And left her life behind.
"What trick is this?"
The young girl shrieked.
"I cannot see the light!"
The hole was far, too far to climb,
And Alice started to cry.
The rabbit grinned with bloody fangs,
As shadows blocked the sky.
"Follow me," the rabbit said.
"I will guide your way.
I shall show you to the Queen
And YOU shall be my pay."
Alice stood and wept and cried,
For her rash and foolish act.
Shadows gathered round her then,
Whispering that she tried.
On banks of rivers gushing blood
The rabbit stood to wait.
He wished to take his time with her
For he knew well her fate.
The shadows grew as Alice advanced
Their words echo and sigh
The girl screamed as she was caressed
The shadows moan and cry.
"Follow me," the rabbit said.
"I will guide your way.
It's not much further up ahead.
We may get there today."
Alice followed close behind
The way too dark for sight.
The further Alice wandered in
She lost more of her light.
"You must stay back!" the rabbit said
"The twins are now free.
Their victims' blood fills the river for
Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee."
"The big fat twins?" Alice asked
Her mind now far gone.
"The very same," the rabbit said.
"Their crime spree is not done.
"For you see," he soon explained,
"You are inside a dream
You sleep so peaceful in your bed
So deep you cannot scream.
"And here is where we must part,"
The rabbit said with a sigh.
"I'm very late for a private date,
So go on with your head held high."
Alice stared into the dark,
The sound of the twins ahead.
She knew to get into their range
Would surely make her dead.
So stealth is what she chose
To watch their horrid acts.
A little redhead girl they killed
Tore up and stuffed in sacks.
"Another fake," said Tweedle Dum
To his brother Tweedle Dee.
"A fake indeed, dear brother mine
"We need to find her, see."
"We do indeed," said Tweedle Dee
To his brother Tweedle Dum.
"If Alice gets away from us
I'm afraid that we're both done."
Alice swallowed nervously
And backed away in fear
She knew not their plans for her:
To ruin all she held dear.
The twins searched long and far and wide
But neither found their prey.
"It's just not fair!" said Tweedle Dum
"Our Alice got away!"
Soon Alice found herself
On quite a grisly scene
A mountain made of skin and skulls
The bones giving off a sheen.
"Wonderland is not the same,"
Alice muttered to herself.
She grabbed onto a pile of brains
Sitting casually on a shelf.
"Release us all," a small voice said.
"Free us of the twins.
Our souls here cannot leave
Until they pay for their sins."
Alice stared at the brain
She took down from the wall.
The voice, it seemed, had come from it
So she kicked it like a ball.
Soon the girl skipped and jumped
To the land of the March Hare.
She knew that it was time for tea
And maybe a good scare.
The March Hare looked up at Alice
As soon as she arrived.
She soon saw with disgust
The March Hare had no eyes.
"Come closer, dear, sweet child,"
The March Hare said, so slow.
"Come sit down, have tea with me
And stay to watch the show."
Alice sat down at the table
Holding a cup of tea.
The trees behind them moaned and howled
The only wall against the sea.
"No one has tea anymore,"
The March Hare said with a wheeze.
"The Hatter is dead thanks to you-"
His speech stopped by a sneeze.
"It's because of you I lost my eyes
And my taste of tea.
Yet I know far more than you, girl
I don't need my eyes to see.
"The Queen still rules in Wonderland
With a fist of hardened steel.
It's up to you to take her throne
At least that's how I feel."
"Is the dearest Cheshire here?"
Alice asked against all hope.
The March Hare grinned a toothless grin
Shook his head and exclaimed, "Nope!"
"The Cat has all but gone from here
The moment darkness gained.
He waited years-decades, girl!
Your absence had him pained.
And now we suffer from the Queen
And her dark and evil rule.
Her enforcer is the Jabberwock
The creature is most cruel.
But now you're here," the March Hare grinned
His tongue twisted and black.
"You must kill the Red Queen
If you wish to go back."
Alice let the Hare alone
To drink non-existent tea
She pushed her way past shrieking trees
Out to a raging sea.
The sea itself groaned and stirred
And opened many eyes.
A simple bottle was Alice's vessel
Through moans and screams and sighs.
It took the girl ten days and nights
To reach the darkened shore
The bottle burst upon the land
Alice can get back no more
The land beyond now firmly black
And beyond all good and light
Alice wished only to sleep
Right through the eternal night.
But trudged she on, through sightless steps
And trees unnatural made.
Fanged trunks and sharpened claws
Tore at her dress in rage.
"I'm an adult girl now," she said
"And not scared of childish fears
No stripping trees can scare me off!"
Her cries fell upon deaf ears.
Her dress was torn to shreds
As she got out past the trees.
She tore it off to undergarments
And continued on her leads.
