13 July 2015

Ditch the Myth and Boulder

Did my angel get feet of clay
plodding through an unacknowledged life?
Sometimes filled with tedium,
occasionally filled with strife?

Ditch the myth and boulder, dear Sisyphus,
This labour is not worth your while;
Strap on the wings of Daedalus
escape from lassitude in style.

Lil' angel, that's what you called me;
and this part am I willing to play --
But I am merely a fitful poet caught,
trapped, captured, held at bay

in the branches of this world of words
cornered, ambushed, as those flightless birds.



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