LJ Idol // Week 10 // Icarus

 An Invitation to Freedom.

We sailed across the oceans, you and me.
I taught you to hang upside-down from the rigging.
We set foot in a thousand cities, sent mail, bought rice, went on our way.
We were free, you and me.

Some miles inland we hiked up the side of a waterfall.
We emerged from under the trees, beside the water, in the sun.
For just a few moments, we stopped.
Here was a place where the earth meets the sky.

This was our world;
We were free, you and me.


But far away, the world goes on.
It is the little things that change.
The twenty pound note; the cover of vogue;
The allotment where nothing will grow.


When we came home, nothing had changed.
Nothing was the same.


We were free, you and me.

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