Posted to Monday Poetry Train Revisited
ONLY THE GOOD CAN DIE YOUNG
She told him that she
didn’t want to grow old,
to die lonely and cold.
Don’t forget Toulouse-Lautrec,
Vincent Van Gogh
or Modiglianni !
He said, don’t think
that dieing is fun but
only the good can die young.
Morrison, Holly,
Bolan and Joplin,
Hendrix, musicians, Cobain.
You can’t escape death,
which way you try, but why
would you want to die first?
River Phoenix, silver screen
Marilyn Munroe,
Jean Harlow, James Dean.
He tells her that crying is
death without dieing,
so smile girl, don’t cry!
I don’t want to say
I told you, you’re already
too old to die young.
Unlike poets, Chatterton,
Shelley, Byron and Keats,
Dunbar and Plath.
They don’t know which way
to turn now, left ways or right
they’ll still be bereft.
Colman, Byrne, Pegg and Jones,
Taylor, Whelan, Bent and Edwards,
Busby Babes
Please may the sweet sweet
thoughts of ‘em all live on in
our memories please!
