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Never Regret Thy Fall
<blockquote style="text-align: center;"><sup style=""><em>Never regret thy fall, </em></sup></blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: center;"><sup style=""><em>oh Icarus of fearless flight, </em></sup></blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: center;"><sup style=""><em>for the greatest tragedy of all, </em></sup></blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: center;"><sup style=""><em>is to never feel the burning light. </em></sup></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"><br/></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br/></p><p style="text-align: center;">Never regret the fall, they said—</p><p style="text-align: center;">as if the sky did not remember your name,</p><p style="text-align: center;">as if the sun did not kiss you</p><p style="text-align: center;">like something it meant to keep.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br/></p><p style="text-align: center;">You rose on borrowed wings,</p><p style="text-align: center;">wax and wonder stitched together</p><p style="text-align: center;">by a father’s careful hands,</p><p style="text-align: center;">ears full of a mother's warnings</p><p style="text-align: center;">but longing is louder than warning—</p><p style="text-align: center;">and you, oh just like Icarus, were all longing.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br/></p><p style="text-align: center;">Higher, you climbed into gold,</p><p style="text-align: center;">into the mouth of light,</p><p style="text-align: center;">where fear burned away</p><p style="text-align: center;">and only feeling remained—</p><p style="text-align: center;">raw, reckless, alive.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br/></p><p style="text-align: center;">And when the sky let go of you,</p><p style="text-align: center;">when the sea opened its arms</p><p style="text-align: center;">like a grave that understood,</p><p style="text-align: center;">you did not scream in regret.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br/></p><p style="text-align: center;">No—</p><p style="text-align: center;">you fell like a confession,</p><p style="text-align: center;">like a truth too bright to hold.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br/></p><p style="text-align: center;">Because, oh dear child, </p><p style="text-align: center;">what is a life unlit?</p><p style="text-align: center;">What is a heart unscorched?</p><p style="text-align: center;">Better to have burned in the heavens</p><p style="text-align: center;">than to have never left the ground at all.</p>
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