.
Adulation warped his image:
Mirror-perfect it seemed to him,
He was bigger than all,
Better than all,
Even the law.
But pride goes before a fall.
He flew too close to the sun
Like Icarus of old, and
Despite all his gold
He was consumed
By the flames of his own
Imperfection.
.
©Denise G Allen, 21 February 2014 07:17
