Sunday, January 16, 2022

I am “Icarus”

I clasped my homemade wings

To my back, and flew to kiss the Sun

Enraged, with one mighty swing

Of her beams, I became undone

The wax melted and my wings dissolved

Into thousand shards of molten fire

Of my great sins I was absolved

As I plunged straight into her pyre

Death breathed her burning kiss

On my soft glowing lips

As I plunged further into the abyss

The garish Sun was in total eclipse

Jealous that Death has claimed her love

She drowned herself in the sea

Never to rise again from above

Until I graciously set her free

To walk the path of the stars, to amaze

The stricken universe with our love and fame

There is magic in settings the world ablaze

And watching from the center of the flame

Maxwell O’Reilly

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