1.
Hollywood bloomed from humble roots,
Became a dazzling oasis renown by tales
Of currying favour with its golden gods.
A place of pilgrimage for dreamers with
Pocketful’s of burning ambition, going
Out on a grand odyssey for eminence,
Started from scraping at the bottom.
Personification of the American Dream,
Rising from ashes, weave rags into riches,
Perched way up high on a mighty pedestal.
The realm of bespoke glitz and glamour,
Ladies shine as bright as their diamonds,
And men with mega-watt grins to match.
2.
Behind the gloss, more cursed than blessed,
Glorified realm of infamy, kissed by the sun,
Where wheels of fortune can turn so abruptly.
Not always the perfect epitome of magnified
Success, a superficial quick fix to high esteem,
But a hotbed for an unhealthy requisite to ruin,
A breeding ground for descents into madness.
Tabloids like to drag dusty skeletons out into
Blinding scrutiny, under epileptic glares
Of camera blubs going off, framing shame,
All to make a quick buck off a big disgrace.
Glittering stars can watch careers fall and
Crash back to earth as quickly as they rose
To the limitless skies they once shone from.
