About Me
sometimes, I wonder
....Chapter I
Strange music filled my ears.
As I passed puddles of pink and purple water. Painted by reflections of strange light setting, beyond blue ink hills. Children's laughter creeping upwards towards me...lingering as I turned around to see glassy pools. Mirrors scattered across the road . Somewhere splashing, the children stamp their wellington boots. My eyes watered-widened as I looked down toward my liquorice cigarette, which had started to fall apart...Frowning behind my soaked hair, noticing the water creeping up my green patchwork flares.
I stopped to get another cigarette, from my long tailed jacket. And the rain started falling heavily as I glanced back along the looking glass road...winding though it had not before...
All along the avenue, frightening fringes of burnt charcoal trees...their twisted branches hold no leaves...
I reach an archway in the wall, several panes of light upon a door...I stopped. Traced my hand along the stone wall ..slowly stepping, up each step.
"I wonder if this door is locked, shall I explore or shall I knock?" I pondered knowing I lacked the patience. and so without a moments hesitation, I pushed open the door
Looking lost.. Looking to be found I wandered the halls looking around. Around the corner a cat statue sits, by the bottom of the staircase, awaiting to be ascended. what happened next perhaps well that depends on the inclusion of a note of the fusion. Of Reality, and of dream and all illusion merged in my rather peculiar state of mind.
As I walked up the staircase, I was greeted at the top, by a an old withered face. The sea blue suit he wore seemed to be, missing three buttons apparently. the sleeves frayed completely. Upon his head the highest of top hats. He stroked the whiskers of his beard.
"Dear Oh Dear Where are you going, For a moment please stop?" He asked without moving his lips.
"Well of my destination I am unsure...I'm on a trip you see, I intended to wander all the way to the top" I explained.
"Top of what indeed I ask, have you lost the plot, perhaps?" he muttered looking rather displeased.
Just then I looked down all the steps. To where a cat sat, looking at me, the colour of, the gentleman's velvet top hat. I raised my brow in questioning..yet strangest of all, now here's the thing. The Cat raised it's brow back. To my alarm.. But the old man assured me, The cat meant me no harm.
Alright then Ive had enough of this place.. I moved closer to take a better look, before I decided to depart. Though now where the old man did stand. Stood a clock with no face, nor turning hands.
"A magician!" I cried. "A wizard! A spell!" As from the clock, A pendulum fell.
"Its time to go, now don't delay, Time now to wake up." said the twilight cat holding a ruby cup. filled with a pale emerald elixir. scent of sugar.
"Wake up! I cried. Surely not, I wakened only hours ago!"
"I think so, now on you go, don't trip descending down the stairs."condescendingly said the cat upon the stairs, standing staring with twilight hair.
"Now this is not fair! Now I am filled with confusion....Of all of this, I am unsure. For surely this can be no illusion. Though it seems most bizarre, you with blackened coat embellished by stars.. An old man to a clock, for a moment it did shock but time does encase us each after all..." I waited for a response, but the cat carried on whistling the most ridiculous tune. "Ive had enough! You are some sort of loon! That's it, yes we're through. Sir, Good day to you!" I exclaimed as I turned to leave.
For a moment I was unaware, until the moment I understood there was no cat and there were no stairs, Then I knew I knew not where, I was standing, but In the rain, I stood there.Chapter II
For a moment I was unaware, until the moment I understood there was no cat and there were no stairs, Then I knew I knew not where, I was standing, but In the rain, I stood there.
The showers coated me completely, covering my clothes in crystal beads. Movement in the trees caught my eye. Shadows dancing with the wind.
Which chilled my skin...As I watched and watched~ Shivering. Catching sight of someone, wandering in the distance up ahead.
Hair of white and boots of red. A Cosmic Cat, in far out threads, heading towards a darkened set of stairs~ splitting the hillside in two.
I followed through under an archway of trees. The strange music which had played earlier began bubbling into my waves of thought once more.
Playing the flickering orange of contorted street lamps, as around me, stirred a breeze.
The branches of trees ahead seemed to twist and spike like silhouettes of shattered lightning. Frightening against the sky, shades of plum jam and marmalade. "Where are you going?" I called aloud but the cosmic cat did not to hear, growing more distant, further I peered. As I decided to run after.. but at the top, I stared and stopped. Noticing, The Cosmic Cat had gone. Oh well, I thought. And wandered on.
Reaching rows of light I vaguely recognised, I sighed relief and looked towards a house ~I assured myself I knew.
Wandering up the path...I stopped. The sounds from within poured out onto the street, laughter and loud feedback to greet me as the front door swung open.
I gazed away some seconds... To the sky and I observed...An ancient arcana..A single star...Cool colours flashing..."How bizarre! This single star.."In awe I did declare. 'Rising Venus you mean' said a voice serene. Oh so fair, her corseted curves. Indigo hair concealing ivory skin..
Black velvet shoes upon her feet...embellished by emerald stemmed flowers.
I looked up as our glances met...~And I catch..Her Amber Eyes...As if to match...to compliment...The wicked glowing crescent grin...
Of the moon which towered over high.
"Fare Well" I cried to no reply... As into the night smiling, she wandered away..
Stranger still methought. But before I spoke my gaze was caught, by a familiar figure at the door. Tapping red boots, Black Star Sapphire pupils.
Twilight rimmed almond eyes. Obscured by opal, strands of hair. Perhaps in cahoots with the twilight cat methought, as The Cat began ranting in riddles and in rhymes! "Rat A tat Tat." said the cat, looking towards me. "Oh Really?" I enquired "Do clocks which chime...chime to remind..or bind us to our daily rituals?" The cat replied, while wandering casually, back inside. "come back!" I cried, following in, through the door...
I Glanced between the banister to see~ The Lost Looks upon Forgotten Faces. Each gazed & gazed & gazed away...
Between a Beaded door I peer, Darker than the hallway...Downright disarray! People sprawled around the place... Absolute chaos in the atmosphere.
Green bottles lying around the room,. Sickly scent of spiced perfumes. I find The Cosmic Cat, standing conducting with a writing pen, rather weird waves of sound. Surrounded by boys in Sci-Fi suits and girls in silver space boots.
The cats many muses, I assumed. "I seen you wandering amidst the leafless tree's, mere moments ago I do believe." I spoke
"Perhaps. Perhaps. One day the bridge shall collapse...and into the water they shall fall...the peasant and king both one and all." replied the cat.
"what exactly does that mean? Do you recall what you have seen...all the while, while wandering...Watching what along the roads outside? Illusionary? Imaginary? The visions, I see & mistake for memory?"~ "HMmmm" said the cat. "Follow me..."
So I followed in through, until in my line of view... Looked to a window..To all That I had seen before. Only upon my second look... rain which poured, electric glass.. upon each tree, grey withered faces...A child dressed in gold & green, against the sherbet fountain leaned, playing a harp...
Before wandering around the place, picking up the fallen fruit..which appeared to be... Shaped like flutes, trombones! Piccolos and saxophones!... Rather dismayed... Quickly I turned to look away..And so back into the other room I peered. But now.... Reality~ Distorted- Rearranged! No faces left to recognise..no familiarity.
Girls in feather masks wandered by me, laughing... Rainbow Ribbons. Hanging from the ceiling. Clocks and Mirrors Upon the Walls of Tangerine...
Breathing in smoke~ slowly slipping to serene, while wandering...Passing shapes, as I began pondering~why there was no space between. Surrounded, encased...
Yet suddenly I began to feel alone...
Obscure angles of view in the tangerine room...Girls in emerald feather masks, blew out...their swirling smoke in great purple plooms...
I traced every trail of energy....As The Boy with Plum Sorcerer Eyes~ turned to me, as he drank from a yellow teacup full of rum...Laughed for a moment and then began to hum, some classical piece...Stood at once drew his drawing pen...Wrote upon the wall... in spectacular spectrum's..Colours I had not seen before...
"Revolution, the solution, to separation of society.
supposedly..reality...all information we receive the dried out ink of dated pens, The words of many other men..shall only be our destiny, if we so choose to believe..."
Through the window near the path, some lady cartwheels upon the grass. in my sight..all delight...a girl stood and juggled several spheres of light...cast each up... alighting the night...illuminating orbs, ...as many moons in darkness creeping.
I smiled entranced, transfixed for a while. Then upon asking someone, of this...Illusion?..A moment of clarity amidst confusion.
"Where am I?" I cried! In Panic... "Pardon me!" They all replied, giggling~muttering & smiling wide...
"Oh yes I recall! I'm looking for the cosmic cat!" I called, as I quickly made my way back into the hall. To be greeted again by the space cadets...
Empty and expressionless...I wondered if held by hell or highest bliss. I waved goodbye regardless, to them all, more or less...~Not wishing to be rude...As I made my way to ascend the stairs...In Turning back behind to see...Adverse shifting in the atmosphere. Sinister smiles holding muted laughter.
Starling Silent Sounds of derision. Ringing Shrill within my ear.... And still I stood, still sensing their sneers...head in hands... Overwhelmed!
I closed my eyes becoming filled with fear...And into the void I gazed again...Hello it is nice to meet you...I think I said as salutation...to myself...
Over the edge seemed to sit rather steep...Descending into darkness deep...
Again another shift in view.. The air instilled peace at last ...As somehow my perception bended...As I transcended...My thoughts extended...in symmetry....
One millions words just then streamed across my mind...surely by some immortal pen.. feelings of bliss...warm orange mist around..Airy visions of Fairy Rings...All Childhoods spent...other worlds I would invent...wandering through fields of forget me knots...following every fantastical thought.
In days of wonderment I recalled..Purest pondering...In questioning all...
The music below faded then stopped...opening my eyes... I noticed, finally I had reached the top...
