Wishes

Wishes

By Derek Prior

To all who come to this happy place, welcome.
The plaque reads from the castle steps.
One step forward,
Leafs rustle innocently along Main Street
A train yawns awake far off.
Ragtime music sweeps through the airy courtyard,
Raising a wind deep inside.
One jump ahead,
And through the castle gates I soar,
Returning to the land
Where age stands like a frozen hourglass.

Down cobblestone drives and English manors
Over mountains and around the river bend
Past temples and amongst comets I meander.
Every step a memory,
Every blink a moment longing for a glimpse
Into the imagination of the creator.

Faces fly all around, off to Neverland
Youth clutching the unmoving sands of time,
This land cannot be tarnished.
Upon my head,
Two golden spheres divulge and absorb

Laughter.

Excitement.

Peace.

Slowly, a path beckons like a poisonous apple,
Down the rabbit hole I tumble
And awaken, the hourglass loosening the particles,
Back to reality.

Traffic.

                              War.

                                                       Anger.

                                                                                 Hate.

                                                                      Destruction.

                                                                                                                                Evil.

That’s what lies before my unwavering eyes
As the world swirls past my porthole in life.

But a smiles rises by night.

For up to the heavens jewels I glance, wishing.
My eyes unearth the second star to the right,
The hourglass flies from my hands, shatters
The grains falling like a meteor shower.
I can go the distance.
For one man’s imagination has become a sanctuary
Strangers like me flow toward it each moment,
Escaping the reality to enter a whole new world.

It’s a tale as old as time:
Wishing I could be set free
Wishing upon a star
To defy growing up,
To be a lost boy.

But only one thing remains, one last wish.
I’ll navigate my magic carpet in jungles unknown,
Climb the snow-covered mountain for all mankind,
Discover ocean mysteries with me hardies yo ho
Only to wish for to share this small world
With you
If you shall come too.

Had an interesting sort of situation present itself.   I've been for a number of semesters contemplating enrolling within the Disney College Program.  As from my previous post, i've been swept up with the way Disney goes about their storytelling and mythology behind the man himself.  I settled down, allowed a roll of the  dice to tempt fate.   I decided to take the opportunity and leap.  This poem was one that I had written a while ago after trying to determine what it is about Disney that inspired me.  What I came up with, was the ability to allow anyone to leave the troubles of the world at the front gate and become a child again.  

Also, I tried some experimental positioning to showcase my own twisted feeling of falling down the rabbit hole which I feel fits with the mood well.

Hope you all enjoy.