Those the Gods Seem to Favor

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

Author: BobBoyd

Age 80. Cancer survivor since 3 years ago. Work out 3 times a week. Ride my exercise bike 2 hours a day. Live a solo reclusive life. Retired a year ago from working with the elderly in a nonprofit. Started writing poetry a little over a year ago; most poems I write are fictional but some are not. Spiritual with a permanent spiritual experience. Write poems on many subjects. Always researching for many of my poems and because of my unquenchable thirst for knowledge. After reading and hearing about many near death experiences and death bed visions, I believe death is the ultimate awakening and the relocation of a lifetime. You may believe differently, but you have the right to be wrong -- I'm just messing with you. :-) View all posts by BobBoyd