The Heliades

Those foolish sons, Icarus and Phaethon

- what if they would have met, each set

to spiral into their deaths in the embrace of

Poseidon's waves and Gaia's soil;

Icarus' wings burned by Phaethon's chariot burning the Earth.

These sons, heralds of Greek wisdom

that sons should not try to equal or exceed their fathers,

that golden age can't follow silver age.

After greatness, only living in shadow

or the long fall, the arms waving in the sea,

the sisters, crying, turned

into trees on the shore of the fast-flowing Rhone.

28.08.2017