Falling for Icarus #2

Falling for Icarus
was sublime while it lasted ..
But in truth,
short-lived to say the least ..
And of course,
everything and I do mean
absolutely
everything, was stacked up
against him
on that last fateful day of his ..
For starters,
the sun was too low, whilst
my word,
how the wind blew his wings
askew as the
sea rose to meet him halfway ..
But oh’ boy,
what a learning curve that one
final and grave,
miscalculation of his proved to be ..