i used to listen to you speak of icarus your eyes would widen with fascination and fire as the myth reemerged in your memory you spoke to me with every syllable so delicately selected and i would listen to you awestruck by the way you taught me your historic tales you made time stop while letting me experience what felt like an eternity of bliss in your sunlight you crafted your word with your heart and used your voice as it's vessel and i would sit there dumbfounded so pleasantly paralyzed by the pure passion behind every single breath that you spoke to me softly each and every last one of those nights we shared your sunlight never failed to shine no matter how dark the settings of your stories were but i remember the feeling in my gut that day the day i truly understood your passion for that one tale i'd still beg to hear you tell to me once more it was the day you told me i flew too close to the sun for your comfort but when i soared through our sky i melted so effortlessly into your sunset but you believed my wings were too close to your flames so as i basked in the rays of your sunlight you to pushed me away from them so that i'd fall and crash into the ocean right below me your attempts to cool off the burns that never were you were petrified i'd be scolded but now i've been swallowed by a sea of sorrow and the lonely stars of the night sky so frigidly cold without your hearts heat to keep me warm i know you wanted to save me from bearing the fate of icarus but the only thing that's burning is the hate that i hold now for this rendition and how i feel i'm farther from the sun than the day i first dreamt to reach it
if our odyssey ends here, know that this was not the tale of icarus reborn but a young demise to the legend of eli and grey