Ode to Rik - The People's Poet

We branded you the new Messiah

with the way your blue eyes held

each and every one in the room,

with your telephone voice

and vulnerability,

and the new breed of humour

that spoke to a generation.

You were mad but beautiful

in your lust for life,

taking the stranger

by the hand and the crotch.

You were brash and undisguised

at the centre of the universe;

an insuppressable little child

who never learnt to behave;

a phenomenon of ego and erotic thought.

No one could stop you,

and no one will forget you.

Rik Mayall was without doubt a successful, sexy, insanely brilliant comedian, a light the kind of which this world will never see again. If I could have met him, I would've told him just that - because we all know he was the kind of man who loved his ego massaged. You will never ever be lost.