Friday, April 17, 2009

Too Near the Sun



TOO NEAR THE SUN!
(Written at the height of the Credit Crunch, which is still lingering!)

There once was a Wall Street Banker who had an unusual name,
One held by a Greek from mythology, whose fate ended up the same.
Icarus, Greek risk-taker, planned to fly very high,
So he built himself some mythical wings to lift himself up to the sky.
He made the wings and he flew with them; all he thought of was success,
But the wings were faulty, he soon found out; soon he was in distress.
There was wax in the wings' construction, a fact he had ignored,
And the wax began to melt away the nearer the sun he soared.
He finally fell in the ocean, which certainly served him right;
He fell because he'd been aiming at far too great a height.
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Icarus, Wall Street Banker, also aimed for the sun,
He desired to be nearer to the gold, higher than anyone.
His 'wings' too were faulty; they melted as he flew;
And, falling, he realised, at last, that punishment was due.
Icarus, Wall Street Banker, down, down, down he fell!.
But what makes me quite livid is.....
He fell on ME as well!

16 comments:

Rune Eide said...

What's more - he fell on the rest of us too!

Brian Miller said...

lol. very apropo in light of the current financial climate. happy tt!

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Kat said...

If the banker had fallen into the sea, we could've wiped our hands and moved on....

Sigh.... in a suicide mission falling on us too is terrible..!!!

LA Nickers said...

Smashing ending.

Jim said...

Wonderfully done! He's down, now where is the money?
..

Gemma Wiseman said...

That last line is a universal spot of reality! Hilarious!

Ramesh Sood said...

Oh! What a take on the prompt.. it made me laugh at the end..

Sherri B. said...

Brilliant and, oh, so cleverly done! Loved it. :~)

SandyCarlson said...

We little people are the casualties of the great risk-taking myth makers!

shraddha said...

nicely said!

all of us suffered i guess..

Tumblewords: said...

Yup. He fell on us, for sure. Nice work, as always.

Harshad Mehta said...

You made me laugh.

Great work.

Thank you.

gautami tripathy said...

I enjoyed!

help me rewrite Greek tragedies

Also, please do hop on the Monday Poetry Train

Anonymous said...

Squished me flat, they did! Nicely correlated, here- the tale of flying too high, too fast.

one more believer said...

excellent tale....