MONEY AND FAME 2

Dedicated to Marvin Gaye--
Another assassinated by hypocrisy
(Written in 1996)




No matter how hard you tried,

You couldn't seem to secure

That elusive peace of mind

Which you sought so hard to find,

That you died a little more each day,

Hoping against hope to bind

To your restless and unhappy soul's kind,

Enlightenment and contentment;

And to harmonize sorrow and joy,

While staying down to earth,

That is impossible to blend.



And in the end,

You lost sight of your self

In the wrong trend

The world to your own liking, to bend;

Knowing in the bottom of your heart,

That you as only one man could not prevail,

In leading your world and home,

And all that you held dear,

Their evil ways to mend.