The celebrity status

To be invincible and enviable

Is the drive that makes one a celebrity.

To be the object of adoration

Is the drive that makes one a celebrity.

A celebrity is no more a class apart.

His followers are no more nave and simple.

They nurture envy and reservation

And won’t run to his rescue in trouble.

A celebrity is no more someone

Revered and beyond others’ hope to reach.

He is someone who has by luck become,

And who knows how long it would last, they think.

A celebrity’s foils are exaggerated.

Greater punishments are contemplated.

He becomes more vulnerable and goes

Without a halt to his fall when it comes.

A celebrity status is a glass house,

So visible to the media’s eyes

And so invincible to the public

That a fall when it occurs is fatal.

25.09.2016