This Song’s About You
By: Charles Giuliano - Jan 25, 2020
This Song’s About You
Not loved by the gods
Just another bloke
Beautiful youth gone broke
Infatuation with mirrors
Fun house of memory
Plastic distorted reflections
Romance of ruins
Bent shattered grotesque
Alas poor Yorick
With irony Hamlet said
Holding up his head
All so vain
Even Warren Beatty
Sweet bird of youth
Morphed to insane
Like sanguine Alexander
No more worlds to conquer
Carly got the last laugh
Once blazing star
Rendered invisible
Stella Stella
Brando in Tahiti
Burgers and pizza
A comical Falstaff
Playing a losing hand
Of stud poker
As, in some changeable dream, yesterday blends
with to-day.
Blindfolded crossing the Alps
Gazed on ruins of Rome
Remains of Colosseum
Where vulgate gathered
Watching warriors die
Games of mortality
Exploring the grotto
Nero’s decayed Domus Aurea
Once golden mansion
That lost its glitter
Zing goes the bling
Caveat emptor
Smiles of a summer day
Time to make hay
Jet streaking through sky
Fair Icarus fell to the sea
We soar with wax wings
Heed not these words
This round’s on me