Rebel Lost

Rebel Lost


James Dean

leather clad
sex symbol 

troubled teen
icon

cultural comet
burning bright

bridging
square
and 
hip

did his own thing
when few did

blew away
conformity

live fast
die young

rebel without
a seatbelt

Postscript

How many 
reading my words

have ever heard

of James Dean?

the legend

the man

Sometimes

I fail to understand

that the heroes
of my youth

have been displaced

by silicon based

cyber attention seeking

pseudo sham celebrities  

I wonder if
my forgotten idol

would be
such
the sensation
today?