Don't Come Here Anymore!

You caught at my understanding,

You shocked me right to the core,

I’ve not had a harder landing, than:

‘Don’t come here anymore!’

I thought that you must be joking,

But couldn’t detect a smile,

My heart had missed when you said that this

Was coming on for a while.

 

I shook my head in confusion,

How could I have missed the signs?

You working, close in collusion

With your mentor, Matthew Grimes.

He promised you’d have a starring role

In a film he was going to make,

I said right then to be wary, when

He was probably just a fake.

 

He’d said he was a Producer,

I treated all that with scorn,

The only score that he’d had before

Was something to do with porn.

You shrugged, and said that you trusted him,

That he was your first big break,

And then, ‘So what,’ for he said you’d got,

Everything that it takes.

 

‘Everything that it takes,’ he said,

We know what he meant by that,

He wanted you topless, on the screen

With a cane and a tall top hat.

I didn’t think you would go for it

But I see, how wrong could I be?

You’ve let the seed of ambition rule,

Confused it with artistry.

 

I toss and turn in my fretful sleep

And sweat in my bed at night,

For every dream is of you, it seems

And it puts my sleep to flight.

I can’t tell whether it’s real or dream

When I knock at your old front door,

And you keep repeating the same old theme,

‘Don’t come here anymore!’

 

David Lewis Paget

Reviews

[MomzillaNC]

Was this something that actually happened to you or someone you know? I knew someone once to whom something similar happened. I'd know her before I'd known him. But, he's the one everyone remained friends with when she went off seeking stardom and and ended floundering in lurid off-off-off, ad infinitum broadway productions. IDK what happened to her. But, he married and made a happy life in Boston and is now retired in Florida with his wife of 30+ years. His wife is a lovely woman.

Sadly, I cannot even recall the name of the girl who'd been among my art-for-the-sake-of-art crowd back then. You're poem certainly has the ring of true life experience about it.

[A Soap Mess Stories]

The price we pay for fame...excellent twist...

[Avinash]

Happens everywhere. Starstruck women chasing mirage of fame and ending up in a place they regret. But the pain they cause to their well wishers, they might have no idea of that.

[Marie]

Some people want to be on the screen so badly that they're willing to give everything else up for it. But burning bridges and breakng ties is a bad idea. Someday she may need the paople she left--who now turn aroud and say "Dpn't come here anymore."

[R Smith]

lost her to the lure of the footlights i'm guessing David, if such attractions are worth more than your love then let her be off and move on as we say, well done as always :)

[Valentine]

Is she saying that to him or to the guy that was going to get her the big part? Perhaps it is the porno guy she doesn't want to see. This one lost me. Kathie