Those whose lives seemed charmed
as if favored by gods
with everything seeming perfect,
the looks, the talent, the abilities,
the luck, the love
are often discovered beneath
the veneer of blessed and enviable lives
to have had unimagined troubles
consider a beautiful woman born
into inexhaustible wealth she inherits
along with her incomparable beauty
who never has to work for a living,
who seems to have everything anyone
could ever want
but after she dies, you read about all
the troubles in her less than perfect life
like
men who only wanted her for her money
or fake friends who wanted to cash in on
her abundant wealth
or alcoholism and drug addictions
or chronic mental health issues
and on and on the undercurrent of problems arise
as if those seemly favored by gods
are also cursed by them.
Bob Boyd