Here is what I like to believe, by Hazen Palamar
I like to believe that Icarus laughed as he fell.
That he threw his head back into the wind.
And yelled at the sun that made his back burn,
With rivers of fire.
I like to believe that he grinned the largest grin,
That he was crying tears,
Not of pain from the impact of the water,
Or the burning wax running down his thighs.
But of joy.
I like to believe that Icarus laughed as he fell,
Not because of how stupid he thought of himself,
going so close to the sun,
But because he knew that to fall,
One must have once soared.
Hazen Palamar is a ninth grade student at Asheville High School in Western North Carolina. His poetry has not appeared in any other literary magazine, but he will get there. Being in western NC, he is lucky enough to be able to write stories and poetry with the photographs he takes of nature and his surroundings. This specific poem he is submitting is a special one, it is not based on one of his pictures.
— Hazen Palamar
