What Goes Up...

There once was a girl

who wanted to fly

She wanted to soar

All through the skies

So she would jump

From branches up high

And fall down, down, down,

But she got back up

Every time

One day she went exploring

Over the hill and through the fields.

“What’s this?”

She wondered upon discovering a ruin

Curiosity triumphed and she moved closer

Old scrolls, she found

Lying in the rubble

She read

Furiously, anxiously

Wanting to unlock their secrets

Then she saw

The idea of her dreams.

Wings

She built the wings

Without a thought

Who’s scrolls were these?

And did it work?

Her sensibilities lost

Her curiosity prospered

The wings were finished

Her crowning glory.

She wore the wings,

Admired them with pride.

And decided

She would finally give them a try

She climbed on a rock

Looking over the ocean

The edge of a cliff

Never once deterred her

She ran and jumped

And soared and laughed

She was flying at long last

She went up and down an all around

Unaware of the doom that would soon come

She flew up, up, higher and higher

But minded the sun, as she had half a mind

She flew down to the waves

Felt the spray on her face

The wings grew heavy

She fell into the sea,

Not a boat insight

And she drowned

Clinging to her precious wings.

Inspired by the legend of Icarus.