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Oh, Icarus, why didn't you warn me. I knew that my wings might burn, so I knew that I might have to turn back. But I did not know that if I returned to Earth that I might have lost all that I thought I had. I did not know that the woman I loved would not wait that my parents would grow old and frail that my brothers and sisters would grow distant and that my ability to get jobs would no longer be existent. So hard I worked, so hard I toiled to have the ability to fly to the Sun. But I would not have done it if I knew I would lose everything that I loved. Oh, Icarus, why didn't you warn me? |
Copyright ©2015 Ashi Shadow - 5/7/16 on losing Averi, distance with parents, and more.
The burning is of course a change from the melting of Icarus's wings.
The flight to the sun is a metaphor for career ambition.
And of course the answer is that Icarus did not know, he died from his flight.
I considered putting commas and the ends of the lines that list the things lost (wait, frail, distant)