Neverland

(Note: Dedicated to the memory of Michael Jackson, the legendary music artiste who impacted all who knew his musical accomplishments, and who love his songs.) ------------------------------------------------------------- There once lived a man who made hip music: MJ made dance grand with vocalised magic; And the world was filled with marvellous moves; His voice brought such thrills and awesome his grooves! Starting out easy with Ben and Happy, Morning Glow sweetly touched Music And Me; Telling us Music with I'll Be There jive, Someday ecstatic to One Day In Your Life. Then singing Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough, Sensational pop and fabulous stuff; To go Off The Wall with Rock With You fine, Fine duet on the ball with The Girl Is Mine. Then glimpse Billie Jean to simply Beat It, Jazz Human Nature to P.Y.T.** bit; Burst of nightmare swing with suspense Thriller, Wanna Be Starting' Somethin' to jazz fillers. Man In The Mirror forged good things to Bad, Then turned bizarre lodge in Neverland glad; Dirty Diana thumbed to Leave Me Alone, Eccentric ways numbed to bare all but bones. Smooth Criminal danced Liberian Girl, A fond festival amidst worldwide swirl; Heal The World followed Remember The Time, The legend hallowed in dancer and rhymes. Yes Gone Too Soon for You Are Not Alone, An Earth Song for goons with dinosaur bones; And in your mad Scream, They Don't Care About Us, Your Neverland dream crumbling slowly to dust. A music HiStory, fine compilations, An anthology of Pop Hit sensations; By now sad scandals plagued persecution, Events and harsh vandals sought compensation. Sad dismay hurled end with the world in gloom, Lethal cocktail blend of pain-killers sang doom; Who Is It there that will Give In To Me, Your face and fame set in sad misery. Yet your magical, mysterious dance moves, Grips hysterical, pulse of endless grooves; Once you said in song: I'll Be There, just call... Memory lives strong in your fans and all. Your songs echo now, still glide and enchant; Legacy endows a fated moon dance; No one can forget the music you made; The world in regret yet busy with song trade! Then, once upon a Michael Jackson... Dance and song beyond the disco traction, Gone Too Soon the man, the signature moon dance, Thank you our dear friend, who brought change and chance. The music plays still for we Smile as you sang, We find yet goodwill in Music with thanks; Unique sensations these lyrical tunes, The feelings function, sad hearts in sand dunes! The Way You Make Me Feel plays on the radio, Your song anthems we love in sound stereo; So from time to time, we wander and sing along: Whisper some stray rhyme from your old-time songs! We Are The World in crisis and in lack; Glimpses in-between in madness and slack; Your going away brought your music back, So farewell MJ, our maestro of track. Yes now and again we say a little prayer That in other plains, you find rest wayfarer; May peace now increase in happy Happyland, May your music ease in soul spheres most grand! (Note: **P.Y.T. = Pretty Young Thing) Leon Enriquez 03 Apr 2014 Singapore