I Witnessed Icarus

"That's not what really happened.

Everyone says it was going well

until he went too high.

But I was there,

ploughing by the wet pebbles. 

"I'd looked up from my work

tempting the wrath

of the boss,

and I saw someone on the pier

being forced into shoddy wings.

"They never got above the water.

Their feet skimmed it briefly,

but there was never time to soar

and the weight of those wings

in the water, dragged them down.

"The spin machine started quickly

and the story couldn't be

Icarus had no choice and no chance.

That doesn't work like

Don't be as greedy as Icarus."