Pinocchio’s Flight
Panting as he reached the cabin, Panic-worn, the wooden boy Begged the fairy at the casement, “Rescue me, a harassed toy!” “Wooden boy that comes a-knocking At my haunted cabin door, Know that everyone inside here Died a thousand years before.” “Darksome child whose eyes are painted With the colors of the sea, Are the dead inside your victims? Must I die before I’m free?” “By my eyes I see you dying, Wooden boy who never lived. As for those inside the cabin, All their souls through mine were sieved.” “Why do you speak thus in riddles, Fairy girl with wicked grin? God, the strings that held me up now Pull me back and reel me in!” See the wooden puppet swinging By his strings in yonder tree? See his wooden skin now fleshy? See his shrieking shadow flee? “Come into my haunted cabin. Wooden boy who sadly died. You shall be my phantom puppet, I shall be your fairy bride.”
This poem was inspired by a scene from Carlo Collodi’s novel, Pinocchio, which is much darker than the Disney version. In chapter 15 the wooden boy flees to a cabin in the woods where a Blue Fairy appears at the window and tells him that he can’t come inside because everyone inside is already dead.
I didn’t know that about Pinocchio, but when I was younger I thought the Disney movie was scary enough but the book sounds a whole other level of spooky
However, the imagery you conjure here, Daniel was incredibly creepy and unsettling. Really well done 👍🏼
Yeah, Disney cleaned it up a lot....