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A meteor

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Once you were a megastar

glittering high up in the firmanent,

mesmerized by the brilliance of popularity,

glowing celebrity and meteoric success.

But with time, fickle stargazers turned to

other brighter supernovas, and you

unwillingly became a falling star,

returning to your earthly origins.

Drink, drugs, debts, arrests, humiliation,

rancour and hardship, because thinking

your sparkle in the show business milky way

was everlasting, generously but rashly

you squandered all the stardust gained.

Was that all too brief flash of renown,

when all was permitted or forgiven,

worth the black hole you live in now?

◄ Murray

No Prozac ►

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jennifer Malden

Tue 22nd Jan 2019 18:23

Thanks Ray for the usual intelligent comment. How many meteors we have seen - especially in show business and sport. Often child stars too fall from grace when adults , which is sad. Can't be easy to suddenly find you've become a nonentity, and the trustee/parents often spend all the stardust, so there is nothing left when the rot sets in.

Jennifer

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raypool

Sat 19th Jan 2019 23:24

HI Jennifer, I have come down to earth to comment on this one. It is splendid in painting a picture of degradation which sadly is often inherent in over inflation of the ego and its fall from grace. In a way fame is just a flame that fizzles then goes out - unless of course you die early.

Ray x

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jennifer Malden

Fri 18th Jan 2019 15:47

Thanks for the likes - Charlotte, Big Sal and Ha'azinu. Juxtaposition from B S - wow! Had to look it up! (Don't tell on me)

Jennifer

Big Sal

Thu 17th Jan 2019 18:33

The juxtaposition of ideas is second-to-none.

Well written poem.?

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