Sky Lord, Airborne, you are without equal Unsurpassed in your ballet of the sky Cloud dancing, rainbow colored hues In this, you have paid your dues..
Born with a poetïc face And a mind that raced in numbers You walked tall among men In riches degenerating into rags.. What began of dashing beauty Became a scourge of grotesque painting
Aviator, with your broken bones Break their hearts In the mystery of your misery Compensate what you lack holding intimacies in your hands Merge their bodies with empty promises And the poison of the loss Of your genius with the disintegration of your sanity
Repeatedly in circles You repeat your words A hundred times Sans grace of rhymes Paper airplanes torn in shreds Lie wasted in the grime Of deathly dust Like germs permeating On blackened windows Walls that hear your wails And tales of woes
In the end you have lost all reason In the sadness of your gloom Many men have spelled your doom Like an outcast in the desert You were but an empty shell No one there to care for you Though they all gave in to you.. Silent tears deprived the laughter In the midst of all the fame, And all the fortune You have died a lonely and Neglected man
But, you are up the skies now And I can just see you smile Waving like a shy schoolboy....... with delicate delight in your eyes, Maybe there, in your spiritual might You shall be free at last For airborne, you are without equal Like a true conqueror of the constellation You shall sleep in an eternal sleep Where all but peace shall stay awake In your heart that is already mended
For: Howard Robard Hughes Jr. (08 September, 2009)- When the name Howard Hughes is spoken, a picture of an unkempt old man, severely underweight with long hair and rotting teeth comes to mind.It is an image that persists to this day.But it wasn't always like that. In the beginning he was a handsome young man,heir to his father's millions in the drill bit tool, an excellent aviator and engineer, an astute businessman and a famous movie producer.He was a man of immense vision. His slow descent into madness came much later and many of his aides took advantage of this fact to rob him of millions.