Icarus Unmasked

We willed what we’ve become.

This is it: Both the before and after

Like the warnings and the disaster.

Plaster walls where shuttered windows

Leak seconds like time-lapsed photos.

I talked, explained, waved my arms wildly,

Childishly hiding that I don’t know.

The promises were lies before I spoke them,

Before I held them up and laughing broke them–

I can’t be this and that and neither, either.

So I cross my wires and proudly lie:

We’ll unfurl like flags across the bandit sky

That steals my thoughts from their grounded sty.

Wax melts on planes that high.