FREEWRITE: WONDERLAND
BY QUENTIN L HARRIS
After reading to us about Alice in Wonderland falling into a place and grabbing an object, Tracy Schlapp gives the writing prompt: think of our own upside-down space and grab ahold of an object and release our fears.
My upside-down space is the deeper dimension of my mind. That dark valley (Psalm 23) that hides my pain and shame. That place I will face my deepest fear — my ego’s protector.
That object I hold is a symbol of my faith in myself. Without this object my world is cold and lonely. Just me journeying like a traveling man to lands unknown.
What object do I hold?
A book that called out to me to be its lover and friend. A sacred call, a hero’s journey to know myself.
This book’s promise is that it will never leave me lonely — my sweet exorcist and lover forever — that book, I have to see what’s inside — nothing, just blank pages. That book is the book my lover calls me to write — then, I wake up saying what a strange world we live in … an energy universe saying: “Behold I am your sign.”
Today, I feel like I have seen my own Wizard of Oz, the lover of my soul, a book — yeah, I'm so cool and strange.
They seem to enjoy this reading. It brought joy to my soul to read it and receive such wonderful support. This piece was a partial rehash of material I wrote in the past. When I thought of what I was to write about I thought of the hole. When I go to hole, I would put up a huge sign saying: “SILENCE” and if they disturb me, I say: “If you don't look like Marilyn Monroe, you got's to go and the guards would walk off laughing.”
My greatest friend in prison is a book. I am a prison monk who fell in love with books and escaping to that magical place of deep thought and reflection. Knowledge is my only true love in this life and although I love people as an introvert, I love knowledge more than people. Strange how when you’re away from human contact, your only friend in life becomes your lover and your lover reveals your special destiny. Isn't that both cool and strange. | QLH
"prison monk." Yes! Continue, please.