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One poem, harvested from the fifth month of poetry showcase competitions.
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9/23/20251 min read
from month 5: melt 🏔️
"Overnight Sensation"
by Jammy (@_jamsy)
All that time it had never occurred to me just how vulnerable you were, how fragile the situation was
Externally, you acted like clockwork
With your quick wit, persona etcetera
How no one picked up on it sooner I don't know
Up there, on those big TV screens,
you were the big fish in the small pond,
swimming lap after lap while the whole world was watching
But you outgrew the pond,
Suddenly you wanted an ocean
You wanted houses, jewelery
programmes
But it didn't feel like enough... right? like you were still in shallow waters
On paper, you were rich but
mentally, you were homeless
You were wearing rags and living in a dump 'till the day you died
But when your time came, when your run was finished
no one knew
They plastered your face on headlines and papers and that was that
And when I found out, my tears fell like a million diamonds
But none of them could buy you back
"The Richest Poor Person I Ever Knew"
That's how I remember you
