Requiem poem - One of the Stars

First of all I have important notice that next part of online novel will come in first week of September (it could happen earlier) due to college work. Scripts and drafts are already in the making. So until then I will post work of others or some of my song and poems. This poem or you could actually take it also as a song is about too many young lives lost due to addiction. It hit hard for me when I found out one of my favorite actors (Cory Monteith) died because of an overdose. I was aware about his past but I never thought that his life would end so abruptly. His death and so many of other young actors and singers in last couple of years inspired me to write this poem. It's probably on the side of my rarest darkest songs and poems (they are hidden in my book :)). At first I was hesitant but now I think that it deserves to be published and that this theme shouldn't be a taboo in our world. After all more we talk about it better chances we have to save another young life.

One of the Stars

Too young to die,

too old to believe,

that a world is a place,

where love prevails,

where evil never wins,

where it's beautiful to live,

those are fairy tales

that never exist.

You were taken

by the jaws of misguided belief,

that only a powerful drug

can give you a relief.

A horrendous addiction

where start is so vague

but the effect remains

when you're losing your mind

facing at the end with your demise.

Living in the limelight

never said to be easy,

the power of strength

you sought so much

was in you within.

You rather took

an easy way out

making an excuse 

to those left behind.

Drugs and alcohol

destroyed you inside out,

leaving a shadow of yourself,

a big hole of doubt

of the never ending future.

Legacy of your life

remains unbroken

as a hope to those

taken back to the stars

to quick to realize 

they are one of them themselves.