Blood Hounds.

Hi ,
Im aware in this day and age, some do use the media very skillfully to there own advantage. I do feel others are mauled and manipulated by the same media.  I wrote this piece after seeing a news report about Amy Winehouse last year, whom i  do believe to be a great artist if left alone. I was aslo sickened to find a web site asking people to predict her demise.
Thank You" as always for reading.

Blood hounds. Helena Donovan

 
Television, stage a queen,
  Act your art, or live to sing
full of life, youth so keen
The blood hounds  start to glean.

Worked like puppets in a world
of flashing bulbs,  mob control
Digitalized your very soul
release!  the hounds  are keen.

Glare of light,  blinds  caress ,
Silently clicked , your processed
tossed into the media ring
A hound,  earns his rosette.

  Pressures in the making
Of a star in modern times
Drink! or drugs, a boozy scene
The howling blood hounds scene.

Territory all marked out
scent of dogs, or barkless louts,
your Photographed  in every way
your cries excites,  blood hounds pay.

Stalk you like a pound of  flesh
push you to the brink of death,
camera lens inside your eyes
your now a blood hound prize

Predicted death, obscene site
when will they ever see your plight
so full of fear, are we to blame?
  prize an ipod, download shame.

Hunt you till you are no more
Negatives scattered on a floor
No money gains you’re spent and done
Your paparazzi hound sniffs  on.

Old Doll.