QUOTE : Champagne Sheets by Stewart Stafford<br /><br />The little girl who swam with sharks,<br />Receiver clutched in her dead hand,<br />A naked, lonely death in a sterile room,<br />Pill bottles silent witnesses to her end.<br /><br />Did she jump, or did others push her?<br />Tabloid gossip for the masses to echo,<br />Livid without make-up in the mortuary,<br />Stripped of her last vestiges of privacy.<br /><br />Her disturbed mother was never there,<br />She had no siblings or a nurturing father,<br />True love and children evaded her grasp,<br />A fragile shell, now a luminary immortal.<br /><br />© Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved.