Icarus


Do not bank on a lifesaver

Coming second, first or third

As tall and looming cabers

Scrape skies – hurried and absurd.


Tossed alongside shining sabre

Toothed-Tiger looking herds

They are timid after taming.


And self-righteous bees and birds

Practice surreptitious-slut-shaming

In a world of wizened words

Reduced fruitfully like raisins.


The acorn may be small

But it’s endeavour grows so mighty

From it’s branches to it’s trunk.


And the flock’s morning call

Along with wings so fit and flighty

Launch from their wooden bunk.


Just as Icarus looked down on all

Mankind’s eyes are blinded brightly

By a couping Parliament; whose ship has sunk

To a depth that Devils dare to fall

Which constricts forever tightly.


And makes – a fake of the monk.


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