Fell From The Sky

He fell from the sky, or so it would seem, his naked body
causing a degree of consternation
where he lay in the street.
He fell from the sky, or so it would seem; and
the traces of wax on several feathers
found drifting not too far away
might suggest
his wings had not been equal to the task.
But on such a sunny day
it was not too hard a landing,
and no bones, they say, were broken;
only a last light had gone out.
No bones were broken;
only the hopes that yet remained
had been torn from his grasp.