Ascension by Mark Harris

This is a style of poem is called a villanelle, and it's my first attempt at creating one. It's a French form, consisting of five tercets followed by a quatrain. The rhyme scheme is ABA ABA ABA ABA ABA ABAA; it was a challenge to get everything to fit. The last line of each stanza ( and the last two lines of the last stanza) are repeats of the first and third line of the first stanza. It'll make more sense when you read it. 

Ascension

Fly, fly through the boundless blue

Hark to the call of the sun

So the world will remember you.

Look to the light, keep it in view

Soar through the sky ‘til time is done

Fly, fly through the boundless blue.

No choice but to continue.

Higher, higher, Daedalus son,

So the world will remember you.

Almost time to say adieu,

You climb too high towards the heavens.

Fly, fly through the boundless blue.

The wax of your wings will burn through

Blinded by light, Blind to reason

So the world will remember you.

Icarus, the one who flew,

Scorched by the flames of the sun.

Fly, fly through the boundless blue,

The world will remember you.