Songs of Icarus

Why Did He Fall?

Why did he fall out of the sky

From the highest moment of his life

To the lowest, watery depths of death,

Cutting his father's heart like a knife?

 

We cannot save the ones we love from

Quick and sudden doom

If they themselves choose out a life

Which seals them in a tomb.

 

Icarus, why did you fall?

Why did you not give ear

To a father's words spoken in love

The words you failed to hear. 

Flying

 

Daedelus and Icarus

set forth on a journey

so daring that even

the midday sun looked

down in expectation.

 

No small sensation

must have filled the

hearts of father and

son, as they unfurled

their wax-wrapped wings

and fell like daystars

into the wind.

 

Icarus was so exhilarated by the flight

that he sought an even greater height.

His father shouted after him:

    "Don't fly in the extremes.

    Stay in the average,

    the median, the mean."

Well he knew that wings of glue

Weren't made for everything.

 

The words were wasted on his son.

He had already flown too high.

and the scorching midday sun

had made his wings come all undone.

 

No father would have known or planned

that such a peril would be at hand,

or Daedelus would have had

a parachute for his lad.

 

But the future being unforseen,

Icarus fell in a feathery stream

and vanished with a startling scream

into the deep, chilling sea.

And so the Dad went home alone,

Without Icarus, his son.

 

The moral as Daedelus sees

is "Listen to your parents, please."

If you should ignore them with ease

You too may fall into rough seas.

                        The music is "Chase" from an unknown source.

                                The background is from Boogie Jack's Backgrounds.