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Yes, I long for you beneath forlorn skies and a flower bed of stars. And I know you miss me, too. But fate has a strange way of punishing those who shirk her, Crushing the hearts of those at both ends of her skein. Perhaps if you had not left to climb the mountains of your ambitions things would be different. But you did, and like Icarus, your wings melted. But my dreams were to be married, and my wings melted too. Perhaps if you knew you would fall out of love with me you would never have left, but it's too late for that now. |
Copyright ©2015 Ashi Shadow - 7/14/15 on Katie.
Thinking about her.
I know she was missing me recently.
Originally, it was just the first four lines in my head for a few days.
Then, when I felt inspired to write more while driving home from somewhere, it turned into the longer story which was quite different from what I originally intended, but I feel it is better than the original intention.
So the original intent was not to call it Icarus.
After writing it, I decided to call it Icarus.
It's really about how Katie left our relationship over pride (when she chose to go somewhere else over money, not expecting that things would change after she did).
It's ironic in a way since I'm the one who left first for my ambitions even though my going somewhere was not what caused the biggest issues.
After writing it, I wondered if "but you did" should be included in the same sentence as the word "different", and then "and like Icarus" could just be "like Icarus".
The part about "my dreams / were to marry you" had wording that changed a couple of times and I'm not sure that the wording I remembered in the end was the best one.
It could have been something more along the lines of true love or just "to get married" with the you implied. I've changed it again since writing it.