Our Humble Boy Next Door

You are the darling of the masses the one they celebrate
And many call you brilliant and many call you great
Your ego fully inflated and the praise gone to your head
That fame can be the ruination of humility truer words have not been said.

Without the approval of the masses you will never know renown
But the masses who create legends too drag tall poppies down
He has gone from us forever our humble boy next door
His new found fame gone to his head and us he now ignore

Down to earth as a teenager that is how he did seem
But he became changed overnight when he realized his dream
It can inflate the ego when others your praises sing
He ignores his former neighbors now that does seem a sad thing.

Our once humble Neighborhood boy now the darling of the crowd
Has grown into a cocky young man quite arrogant and proud
He has bought a twenty million dollar home in the leafy side of town
But those who gave him wealth and fame can also drag him down.