where the roads don't go

14 - icarus

i knew that when i woke you would be gone

too close, too high, too late to hold your breath

i felt it in the quiet of the dawn

i knew one day you'd laugh yourself to death

before you even made it past the pier

before you even built the wretched things

the world stood still and mourned for you, my dear

the moment that you dreamed of having wings