Final's Week, and How It Messes With People's Heads

So I was studying for finals, then quick as a wink,
I was suddenly nowhere with no time to think.
All around me was a misty, blank white,
And no other creature was in plain sight.
Then from blank, a word appeared,
And for some reason I did not find this weird.
The word seeped up from beneath my feet
In a font that was black, cold and distinct
"Finals."it said, with a period like a spot
I drew much closer than I probably ought
This spot, turns out, was a vast, deep hole
And as I drew nearer it swallowed me whole.

I knew not which way was down or which was up
It was as though equilibrium was decidedly stuck.
I figured I was falling, that was obvious enough
But didn't know why I was bumping into stuff.
I soon found out it wasn't just me in the dark
Because soon enough there was a little spark
A firework whizzed, inside the deep hollow
Revealing so many gadgets they were hard to follow
Metal, claw-like hands wrote pages of notes
And papers were delivered by little steamboats
Glasses had x-ray lenses and books had big teeth
So many peculiarities were beyond belief!

I had been falling for a while it seemed
And then from below me a dim light gleamed
A dark wood floor came into view
But I was falling so quickly I didn't know what to do!
Just when I thought I would hit the floor with a splat,
I was already standing, simple as that.
Looking around, the room was quite bare,
Except a purple backback on a corner chair.
I opened it up and felt my palor change hue
There was another whole world inside of it too!

A man was in there wearing a blueberry coat.
He was pouring grape jelly into a large moat.
"Hello!" he said "Won't you help me out?
You aren't useful, just standing about!"
I reached in my hand and took the large jar
He wiped his sweaty face and lit a cigar.
Halfway in this one world and halfway out
I didn't have much choice but to help him out
I poured out the jelly jar into the moat,
And with the work done the man began to gloat.

"I've been working on that for quite a long while,
But when my Queen sees she'll surely smile.
She'll say, 'Why Scuttledud, you clever beast!'
And plant a wet kiss right here on my cheek.
You there girl, are you rolling your eyes?
How dare you look down on me up from the skies!"

"Sir," I replied, "I did not mean to offend,
But the world is a bit larger here on my end."

"Well come into my world," said the blueberry man,
"And I'll make you a Queen as soon as I can."

A scepter seemed better than a purple backpack
So I shoved my feet in and never looked back.

The air in this new place tasted quite sweet,
and everything in it looked good enough to eat.
It must have been morning for all was covered in dew,
Little gumdrops some red and some blue.
The sun itself was like a glass of lemonade
And cotton candy clouds were colored every shade.

The blueberry man, stuck out a purple sticky hand
and dragged me away, across the candy meadowland
"I've got one, I've got one, a daughter of Eve,
And she was simple and quite easy to deceive!"
It seemed as though we flew for all was a blur
And before I knew it I was in front of her.

She was large and meaty her hair a hot pink.
She looked like a pig, I shuddered to think.
"You!" she boomed, and I was quite scared
Her face turned a bright puce and I just stared.
"You, dear girl, are a daughter of Eve?"
At this point I desperately wanted to leave.
"Yes," I said with a voice rather faint.
"There is someone, then, you should acquaint."

She took me then, down a spiraling staircase
Never had I been in so confusing a place.
The guards bowed their heads as we passed by
Each had armor made of crumbly cranberry pie
The Queen didn't give me a second glance,
And I thought that maybe here is my chance.
But just as I was about to bolt down the hall,
She led me to a shed that was wooden and small,
Shabby and gray in this colorful world.
She open the door and inside a person unfurled.
He was laying in the corner, arms around knees.
The Queen stood back afraid she'd catch fleas.
"Such a pretty collection. Now I've got two;
Trespassing monsters first him and now you."
She threw me in with surprising force.
And I spat in her face with little remorse.

We had to escape I had a test to take,
Out of this strange prison we had to break.
He and I hatched a challenging, desperate plan
We'd break down the walls and run as fast as we can
To the topmost tower where hopefully
The inside of the backpack we'd be able to see.

So we tore down the doors and broke into a run,
But the pie armored guards were quick to come.
We fought them off valiantly, this stranger and I,
And we made it to the tower, to the tip of the sky.
"I can't see anything!" I said with dread
But then another thought popped in my head.
"What if we jumped?" I said looking down.
My companion's mouth slid into a frown.
"Well I can't think of any other way,
I suppose all we can do now is just pray."
We linked arms and jumped off the tower
The wind in our ears growing louder and louder.
My stomach grew queasy as we started to fall,
And I awoke with a start in the Great Reading Hall.

I looked all around me at the students reading books,
And wondered if any were giving me weird looks.
My notes, I had noticed, were stuck to my face,
And I wondered what happened to the bright candy place.
When looking around and eye caught mine,
Apparently he had woken up at the same time.
My fellow prisoner sat a few tables away,
And had awoken at the same time, in same way.
He gave me a smile and I smiled back,
And tried to get my studies back on track.