Reality Check

A well known Cosmos poet recently said to me:
'I don't want too much praise or given accolades ott,'
okay, fair point, let's be 'measured' in our replies,
because too much awe and wonder is when credulity dies.

Credit where credit is due, do you think that applies to you?
perhaps we may listen a bit more if you make your claims true;
ironic that literary masters and artists in old times past, didn't last
in popularity until they were dead, firmly entrenched in the past.

Things have changed, famous overnight, can you handle it,
or will it overtake you, wish to return to what may fit;
only the artist knows what was really in their strange mind,
even they may not be sure what others may actually find.

'Reading into things,' is an occupation of huge proportions,
maybe better not to try, you're just ending up with distortions.