as a Hollywood star preferring the stage,
her left-wing views at odds
with this shallow glitzy world.
She was afflicted with depression, drank too much
and one of America's greatest stars
spent bleak years behind psychiatric bars.
She had the beauty of Helen of Troy
but she was living a lie
driving her to rage and despair
yet in the twilight of her existence
she penned poetry and painted,
an inner peace she would finally find
casting aside...the demons in her mind.