Testo Icarus

Into the heavens rise towards the sun Heavens calling Away from desires filling with glee Gossamer wings Charging emotions make waves like the oceans And crash on your shores, mortal wounds pour from you Faulter in cautions and heed not the warnings Into the skies soar, upward for the moment Soaring weightless distant and blue Gliding through Nothing to follow, no holds or restraints Drifting true Feathered unruffled, sad twice removed Perilous and new Sun on my shoulders, wings spread beneath Carefree flings Though winged and immortal Each upward draft electrifies No measure of freedom Or light in my eyes, circling the sky