LJ Chaplin

LJ Chaplin Mar 2017

She finds consolation
In the shell of her being,
At the bottom of an ocean
Where neither man
Nor the tide that follows him
Can carry her away.

Her heart belongs in a shell,
Wrapped in layers upon layers
of nacre
Where she can abstain
From pain,
From torment
And from his touch.

(c) L.J. Chaplin

#poetry #empowerment #women #hidden #pearl #motjer

LJ Chaplin Dec 2016

The Bus Journey

The person sat by me,
Is calling somebody,
He's saying 'I love you'
Is that so unusual,
To feel so alone in that moment?

The lovers at the front,
Have had more than enough
Of their parents' scrutiny
So they commit mutiny,
And consequences are left unspoken.

The cold condensation
Hides all condescension,
From every pedestrian
With bitter complexions
Who braved the cold and are frozen.

#love #home #winter #journey #bus #cold #travel #bitterness #pedestrian

LJ Chaplin Dec 2016

Meet Me In The Wild

I'll never let the Sun go down,
I'll pull it back up again,
To watch another day go by
And not go down the drain.

I'll wash the Earth with tears of joy,
And wipe the soil clean,
To let a new world flourish
And make it evergreen.

Come meet me in the wild,
Where the grass is always greener,
Where dandelions are your new best friend
And your heart is so much cleaner.

#heart #happiness #earth #environment #health

LJ Chaplin Oct 2016

Solace

I found solace in the arms of a devil,
A smokey-eyed creature
On a whole other level,

My parents warned me not to give in,
To a world full of chaos,
And a love built on sin,

But he stole me away and said he had a plan,
To take 'Mummy's boy'
And turn me into a man,

Fifteen years on and I'm on my own,
The fire went out
And I'm too scared to go home,

I found solace in the arms of a man,
Who hung me over the edge
And let go of my hand.

#love #sin #hate #relationships #poison #devil #solace

LJ Chaplin Aug 2016

Let Me...

Let me swim
Across oceans
Until I reach the edge
Of the World,
Where I can fall
Through the stars
And into
A Black Hole
Of Possibilities.

Let me come out
Of the other side
Knowing the things
I have seen
And the exhilaration
I felt
Are too real
To brush off like dust.

Let me gravitate
Towards the Sun
With hope that
My impurities
Melt away like
Snow in the Spring
And I am reborn
Perfect.

#poetry #freedom #happiness #space #perfect #universe #travel #explore

LJ Chaplin Aug 2016

Unraveled

Last night I had a dream
That I was
F
A
   L
    L
     I
     N
      G.

I wasn't falling down,
Nor falling in love,

I fell  a p  a   r    t.

It started slowly at first,
A single thread that fell out of place,
But then each strand expanded,
From inches to infinity,
Revealing flesh,
Bone
And the unwanted parts in-between.

Like Time and Space
I continued,
Relentlessly uncurling
Until I was nothing more
Than a tightwire
That even my heart
Could never walk.

LJ Chaplin Jul 2016

Body Poverty

Desperate times call for desperate measures,
In search of gold and buried treasures,
To cure corruption in the mind,
To pay off your demons but still faced with a fine,
Strike it rich and drill for oil,
Suppressed in fear beneath the soil,
The heart goes bust with no chance to bail,
It's lost its worth and bound to fail,
The brain is poor, it yearns for cash,
Dollar signs crumble, all to ash,
The body waits for income to climb,
But it's stuck in debt with no hope for a
Dime

#metaphor #poor #rich #poverty #money #debt