PostsChallengesPortalsBooksAuthors
Posts
Challenges
Portals
Books
Authors
Sign Up
Search
About
Challenge
Icarus lives?!
Icarus is a guy from mythology who used wax wings to fly, but flew so high the sun melted them. Then he plummeted to his death. But what if he lived? Tell me! Have fun ;)
Profile avatar image for Ata
Ata
• 56 reads

Icarus lives

she hovers on the edge of the cliff / wax wings and freckled cheeks and steely eyes (full of choppy grey water and murky depths and the distant echoes of wax feathers falling) eyes always tilted towards the sun / always seeing where she could go if only

she / had / wings

you / Icarus / toeing the line between girl and woman / hovering between here and something more

Icarus lives / and she has no fear, wax wings spread and sailing towards the blinding light / You have never known what it means to fail so failure is not a possibility / But if / when / your feathers begin to fall / one by one / Icarus lives / you have no regrets /

it doesn’t matter whether your wings melt / doesn’t matter if you plummet / lost beneath the sea /

so long as you came the closest / to touching /

the sun

8
5
6