FALLING AND FLYING | JACK GILBERT

[spfizz]

Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew. 
It's the same when love comes to an end,
or the marriage fails and people say
they knew it was a mistake, that everybody
said it would never work. That she was
old enough to know better. But anything
worth doing is worth doing badly.
Like being there by that summer ocean
on the other side of the island while
love was

Comments

[pr_scatterbrain]

That is such a gorgeous poem. <3

[spfizz]

Guh. That first line kills me every time.