Wings of Wax

• Artist: Seshtah
• Description: I was reading the myth of Icarus and his father as a Latin assignment and this just kinda popped out. I'm finding that a lot of the mythology from the ancient cultures around the Mediterranean really inspire me for some reason.... I dunno, maybe it’s a phase my muse is going through lol.
  
  Anywho, comments are very much appreciated, and again, if my grammar and/or spelling fails somewhere, let me know so I can fix it.
  Thanks!
  
  
• Date: 08/01/2008
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I'm lost in the Labyrinth
This unsolvable maze
Condemned for knowledge I can't help but have
I want to be free

Birds, oh birds come to me
For I have a plan that will set me free
Wings of feathers and wings of wax
I need both to fulfill this task

Soaring up high, above the clouds
Look at that maze now
I tease the sea and challenge the sun
For at last, I am free

Birds, oh birds fly with me
This plan of mine has set me free
Wings with your feathers, wings with my wax
I used both and fulfilled this task

But my first flight became my last
For I challenged the sun and lost
I flew up high to be thrown back down
Is this what it means to be free?

Birds, oh birds please help me
This plan of mine has set me free
Free from your feathers, free from my wax
Because of my arrogance, I failed this task

Here I lie beneath the sea
Deep down in the grasp of Hades.
Free I am, but not what I wanted
From one prison to another

The birds, the birds, they can't help me
Never again will I be free
Not with feathers, not with wax
Never again to challenge that task.

Comments

[Broken Stars in a Box]

I rememeber this story...I read about the gods and goddesses recently. That was a pretty poem.

[Penny Laine Lennon]

wow this is awesome!!!!

[mlover4evr]

Shweet!