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5.7k · Aug 2018
The African child
Choderlos Aug 2018
The sun sets on the little huts
Made of mud and roofs thatched
The African child
With smiles on his face
He hasn't a cause to worry
Running to and fro in the scorching sun
Lost in the midst of tall trees
Humming to the gentle breeze
He is a happy child

He is oblivious of the hard truth
That a sad future awaits him
Full of challenges and misery
Little does he know
Those smiles he once had
Widely drawn on his face
May dissolve into frowns of anguish

Committing neither an offence nor crime
There may come a time
The beautiful fantasies
The hopes, dreams and aspirations
Everything he once believed in
May come tumbling down

Nevertheless, he is relentless
There is a ray of hope
In this utter darkness
Full of vigour and energy
By might or magic
He will fight his way through
He is the African child.
Telling the tale of the underprivileged Africa child through poetry; from personal experience and encounters.
3.3k · Aug 2018
Withered flowers
Choderlos Aug 2018
One day she will turn to you
And ask you
Do you still love me
And a million things will rush through your mind
A question whose answer seemed so obvious
Now leaves you speechless

There's a lie in your mouth
But your conscience won't let it out
You don't want to break her heart either
With the truth
But sooner or later you know
Everything will be evident

It's no fault of hers
That you've changed this much
It isn't because she stopped caring
Or snapped at you last week
It is because seasons change
And she's still like sweet lemonade to you
But lemon is not your favourite anymore
You'd rather go for hot chocolate
Or ice tea instead

This love you once had
Has now developed cracks
They will break and cut her
Today or tomorrow
You need to let her go
Before you break her
Free her of the imminent pain
Before it's too late
Let her go.
Credits to Lily Rain
618 · Apr 2020
A letter to my love
Choderlos Apr 2020
I'll go with you to the ends of time

We'll be together till eternity runs out

I'll find you beyond the oceans

I'll rescue you from the depths of the deepest seas

I'll be your sun in the night sky


Your glaring supernova in the daytime

Guide your feet above safe earth

I'll duel with your captors and set you free


Be your symphony when the singing birds flee

I'll synchronize your heartbeat with mine

Hold your gaze in my eye

That you may understand

As I'd scarcely allowed myself to hope

The weight of these words I so sparingly speak

That you will believe me

Is all I desire of you

That you will come running into my arms

Because these words are true

Come then, o come

Come to the one who loves you more

The end of your problems bitter and sour

Let's ride into the living sunset

Let's paint our lives with the rainbow

We will live like gods

We will make merry day and night

Sadness and sorrow will be out of sight

We will be the immortals of time

Forever has just began with the two of us
425 · Aug 2018
Dance the rain
Choderlos Aug 2018
A night in the park
The moon sheltered behind clouds
Shape of hills like things asleep
Birds are scarce in the skies
The world is in a background
It's only you and me tonight

Sing at the top of your voice
Make love to me like never before
We fought the law and won
Live every moment of your life
Like that dream you had is real
There's no stopping you and I

The last of our worries
Began the first of our joys
The shadows of our past
Lights our way to the future
Dance the rain, my dear
For a life of bliss and beauty
Awaits you and I.
415 · May 2018
Ethereal
Choderlos May 2018
The taste of honey is on her lips
The fragrance of myrrh is on her skin
Soft, brown, delicate to touch
Adorned as an angel and a goddess
Her subliminal voice is like a muse's
This I know and believe
My five senses would not betray me
389 · May 2018
Prisoner
Choderlos May 2018
I risked the life of mine
To see you smile
I chanced everything
To be there when you needed me
I paid no heed to authority
To be at your command

I gave you my all
Everything you ever wanted
Hoping you'd be mine someday
Who am I to blame you
When I got my hopes up so high
That we'd ever be more than friends

Stripped of everything I once had
Now I am the one
With nothing more to give
Confined to misery
Alone in utter darkness
How was I to know
That trying to win you over
I had become your prisoner
375 · Mar 2020
To the unloved
Choderlos Mar 2020
My heart within me is still
Growing fonder and fonder
With her feverish embraces
Amidst the slightest touches
Every single one of them is divine
She is all the colours in one at full brightness
Surpassing all men, in hearts, and in splendour.

The song I undoubtedly sang so well
But only as friendly it could suffice
I grasped on to my feelings for so long
My tender fingers could hold on no more
Nevertheless, a glimmer of hope I felt in her words
May God love me enough
That my feelings not deceive me
That my only hope, fade not, from view.

We are too young in time
For the feelings that arrest our hearts
These hearts that may have hitherto been shattered
We have felt pain man knows not of
Nothing is altogether new
With time being most ardently kind to us
Going ever so very slowly
We will be healed of our wounds
The sun, to our faces, will shine once again.


Hand in hand on a perfect evening stroll
Heaven and earth reclining into the background
Our mouths saying few
Our hearts saying all
Maybe she will be mine and I be hers
However obvious about my feelings I may be
Maybe a friendly song will forever be heard
My heart will still go on nonetheless
Knowing well I played a part in the story still
We can reach that famous happy end.
We can, in our hearts, rewrite the stars.
Some lines I stole from favourite movies and songs... enjoy :D
360 · Aug 2018
Utopia
Choderlos Aug 2018
Lead me to paradise
to the place that exists
in beautiful tales and folklores
in fantasies and wild imaginations
hitherto was only a wish

I pray not you leave me here
in a land of sadness and sorrow
where the wind does not blow
and the grass does not grow
the stars have faded from view
there's only light in the dark

The sweet scent of savouring flowers
songs of birds fill the air
whistling winds soothe my ear
the trees talk to each other
like a work of art
everything is perfect and in order

There I want to spend eternity
waking up to an utter delight
free from pain and worry
surrounded by nature's finest
of everything best and beautiful.
348 · May 2018
All in one
Choderlos May 2018
No single beauty is the best,
She is all one flower divine
O mystic metamorphosis!
My senses into one sense flow
Her voice makes perfume when she speaks,
Her breath is music faint and low!
An extract from The art of seduction by Robert Greene. Originally from Charles Baudelaire's "All in one".
336 · Jul 2018
Guardian angel
Choderlos Jul 2018
Like the light that guides your way
I will protect you and keep you safe
Sheathing your feet from hurting stones
As long as there's breath in me
Till the last mile of the way

Like the star in your darkest night
I will be there in the saddest days
Brightening up your face again
As long as there's a trace of distress
Till the darkness gives way to light

Like the shadow in the nights
I will be with you forever and for always
Staying by your side as the clock ticks
As long as you keep me
Till the last day of eternity
308 · May 2018
Love's nightmare
Choderlos May 2018
I'd give my life
To resurrect the love
We once shared
Except it was never there
Only a wild imagination it was
On my part
A fantasy never to become reality.

Nevertheless I held on
Hoping, and praying
That I'd be one day awoken
From a nightlong nightmare
Into the light of day
Yet it seemed to only lengthen
The more I waited.

Being but a mortal being
My hopes dashing
My fears multiplying
Slowly breathing in my fate
Accepting reality as it is
But still hoping, and praying
To arise to the light of day.
271 · Aug 2018
The day you said goodbye
Choderlos Aug 2018
Turning your back at me
Leaving through that door
Never to return again
I knew I'd never again be the same
Or so I thought

I saw this coming miles away
Patiently I waited for this day
When every passing day felt like a decade
What I felt was more than I can say

The tears that flowed
Were no tears at all
The heart that seemed broken
Suffered not the slightest scratch
I owe you many thanks
For the daily doses of pain
All the times we were together

You taught me all there is to know
Love like ours was not meant to last
Nevertheless we had our moments
Until that fateful day
The day you said goodbye
85 · Apr 2020
Scribbles
Choderlos Apr 2020
I saw heartache coming
Nearer
And nearer it came
I could, I could
I could not stand clear
Stand clear off its path
Blacked out

Finally
Finally it came
Smothering my tiny heart
Into a billion
Billion tiny pieces
Like French confetti
Confetti, confetti
Ended.
Penned down as raw as it came... enjoy :D

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