Here and Back Again, a Rose's Tale

I was gone too long. I'll try to post more regularly again- wish me luck, and sorry for the rust on my poetry!

Icarus
Child on wings
did no one tell you when
you had flown to high-
where the wind dared not follow
where the sky would no longer filled your wings?

Did you miss their words
as the clouds filled your ears
and people grew small as blades of grass-
their warnings too weak to battle the breezes
their words too frightened to follow your flight?

Would you have listened
if you happened to hear
could you have stopped yourself-
foregoing the tempting taste of beyond
leaving untouched what was just beyond reach?

As you fell did you hear them
screaming your name in the night
reaching out,as if to catch-
your burning body, your blazing soul,
gone again, beyond the reach of mortal man?  

Child on wings
did no one tell you when
you had flown to high-
where the wind dared not follow
where the sky would no longer filled your wings?