Ode to a Celebrity

Ok, the title looks dumb, but the poem is... less dumb. Hopefully.

Hello

To someone I’ll never know

Besides through a glowing screen.

I’ll hear your words

On the radio

And wonder what they really mean.

I want to say that I truly care

About who you are inside.

That this isn’t some obsession with a millionaire

That I’m trying hard to hide.

I don’t know what you’re really like

Besides what’s on the news.

So many times I wish and hope

That that isn’t really you.

We shape the world around us by

Our actions and our words.

But I can’t imagine how you’ve been shaped

By your crazy, twisted world.

What beauty was inside of you

That fortune took away?

What dying did you suffer through

‘Til you were left this way?

Do you still have the innocence

You had when you were young?

Do you still smile the way you did

When you had first begun?

Deep in your heart, is there regret

For words that you have said?

Do conversations haunt your thoughts

As you lie at night in bed?

Do you feel pain for how you look,

Distress for how you’re seen?

Do you ever pause and think about

What else you could have been?

I never will know what it’s like

To live among the stars.

But I can gaze with open eyes

Upon your shining scars.

I see you in the brilliant lights -

You’re a celebrity.

And deep inside, I know that you

Are broken, just like me.

Reviews

[Gee]

Can't say I've ever met a celebrity face to face,would be interesting to ask them all of the questions posed in this splendid poem.Very well done

[AliciaB]

Thank you!

[Emily]

Loved it!
What a great idea for a poem!
Keep it up!!

[AliciaB]

Thanks! Glad you liked it!

[mattavelli]

This was definitely not dumb. :p
For the most part, it flows beautifully. And your ideas certainly apply to your topic. How do the idols feel as the public builds them up and tears them down...

[AliciaB]

Thank you so much! I understand that there are a few parts where the rhythm is a little weird - it takes a few reads to get it down, even for me, and I wrote it! :) I really appreciate the feedback. Thanks again!

[mattavelli]

Of course :)