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?