The Celebrity Status Poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar

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