– Icarus
There comes a time,
beyond twilight,
upon the fall of dusk,
when the city escapes existence
unto sombre slumber,
until the day comes to life.
Yet there breathes a time,
beyond twilight,
beyond the darkness,
its silence unbroken; when
the winds howl in suffering,
for all else is quiet and in dismal,
the butterflies caress the wind’s wings
no more;
words wade in the wind’s waves
no more;
I sigh with pain unto the wind
no more; as I lay hidden
within my deep slumber,
the winds howl in suffering,
for all else recognises it
no more;
the winds howl in suffering —
a desperate attempt,
at waking us up —
it screeches, “HELP! HELP!”
but you and I hear it
no more;
and the moon,
ah, the moon!
she breathes the loneliest of times,
a time and place even the wind cannot reach.
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Icarus is a pen name after the character from Greek Mythology – ‘the man who flew too close to the sun – and such is the purpose of his existence: to write words with his fiery feathers until he crash-lands into a dying ember. Fret not, for he is still close to the sun. It is a long way down until he writes about the death throes of his soaring wings.
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“Darkness and Beyond” was published in our April 2021 Issue. Read the complete issue here.
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