Icarus
Wont you set me ablaze?
Hurl me up high;
Let me burst into flames;
Let me break out into sparks, into rays;
Burning away all my grief and my shame;
The shackles the leash like the keys of a cage;
Until
I am
Light.
I am:
A phoenix trapped in hollow suns
The frankincense of tabernacles.
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