Fame is a mask

Fame is a mask that eats up your face

Choking on the anonymity of celebrity

With all your eyes in a different place

Obscuring the last vestige of humility

 

Priorities rearranged in synchronicity

Shifting headlines matching duplicity

Life’s a duet with your own positivity

Decaying in lightbulbs of anonymity

 

That countenance divine is truly thine

For a whole fifteen minutes of nothing

But sound and a furiously hyped byline

On an empty face devoid of everything

There’s the shame and there’s the pity

There is no such thing as bad publicity.

Reviews

[Annette Pisano-Higley]

So relevant and so true.... we see now how celebrity corrupts, violates, destroys- “ the shame and there’s the pity” and the mighty now fall. Excellent form, flow, cadence, masterful language and stellar rhyme pattern. Important poetic statement. Great poem Duncan!

[Duncan Brown]

Thank you Annette...lovely review

[alanwgraham]

Very true duncan, particularly in these times. Gone are the days when only the birds would tweet. The good old days of the morning paper and the 6 o'clock news are gone forever. Where is the truth now?
Very thought provoking comment on our crazy media.
Cheers,
Alan

[Duncan Brown]

Thanks Alan...nice review