Norma Jean Holds Out Her Orphan Arms For Michael

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Playing Under The Tragic Sun In Neverland - Michael Jackson

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There is no doubt in my mind at all that "magical" people are often constructed by tragedy . I often write as a poet-artist that "Magic and Tragic" are two sides of a law and coin - that rule, purchase,  and imply each other .  

Magical people have internal childlike worlds  powered by unmet needs for love from this parent or that parent or whatever parent was supposed to be the place of proper nurture  and they sometimes have the transforming power of imagination to become exotically adaptive. Its a defensive self rescue in them that burns as it develops .

They are sometimes even perverse .  Pushed to perform . Pushed to finally try to compensate for a part of themselves that is locked in an unending internal struggle for a perfect unity with a parent that never really felt or saw them properly .

They are incomplete,  made by a combined depth of little empathic recognition and pain and they spiral into a Self of show and special trajectories  of what passes for authentic recognition of themselves.

Human comets :  Norma Jean ,  Judy Garland , John Lennon , Michael Jackson  . We know them . They come and pass amongst us ... Orbits of pain and wonder . 

As a poet-artist I am content to envision that the spirit of Michael Jackson and his woes should meet Norma Jean and share stories about being orphaned and empty .

That somewhere over the painbow,  a realm of wisdom lies that allows their light blue shadows to weep what they never could  as children .... I'll be with them in my heart . 

And if such a special realm  never exists outside of all of us,  then maybe we can have a little compassion for everyone who is flawed . Maybe we can invent an empathic reception too of pain and recognition and sit by Norma Jean and Michael Jackson inside ourselves and recognise some of their reflections,  in us .. 

We can create a place of redemption . You see,  we are all actually magical .

Michael :

Everyone dances by the river Styx

With flaws and with the crutches

Of the

Crucifix.............