Why not me?
Artwork: Fallen Angel by ruffscorp on DeviantArt:  http://ruffscorp.deviantart.com/art/Fallen-Angel-209326019

Prometheus by Default -

I examine the words which fall from my lips
No tales of the bold or of daunting tall ships
For they would be  motionless, caught in the mire
Of the of the mists above which I'm not meant to aspire.

Reckless days of my youth and the nights all askance
Form the useless patois of my careless parlance.
For no cause great or small did I once take a stand
And there was not a skill of which I had command

There was no great man who above me stood tall
No pedestal towered beyond the great wall
Which no grace of the heavens allowed me to see
That thread I'd heard existed twixt others and me.

Alone in my mind I looked out at a world
Which at once held me captive with its banners unfurled
But which nevertheless did repel me when I
Sought the path I was told led from earth to the sky

Where was that attractor which others had seen
In their dreams or their visions with ambitions so keen
As to whet their dry tongues with the laughter and mirth
Which was ever denied to the few of this earth

Who so grounded and solid and tempted to cry
Found them selves with no wings and no reason to fly.