Puer Icarus

Benjamin Rodriguez

there are shooting stars and those that fall

those that race across the sky, chugging air

that space refuses to give

 

we behold them as sacred paintings

presenting to us the will of every artist

that of which, is to fight

 

stars don’t get far before they must decide

to follow their path or to crash upon earth

leaving a crater in their wake, that is our story

but you and I burn differently