Rewrite my life (unfinished)
If your reading this its probably because you believe you know who Steven Chaplin is. Maybe went to school with me or met me in passing. Whatever you think you know you will have to erase that and clear what you think you knew. Im not the kid that you were able to look down on before. Behind these deep blue eyes and near straight smile is a world that has the capabilities to move mountains. I have lived more in the last twenty years of more likely than you will live the entirety of yours. I’m not speaking of the drunken fests, and the friends. Because a name brand life isn’t really a life at all. Fly down a back road with me or stumble through a tour in Afghanistan. I’m down to earth raw and uncut so hold on and fuck if you don’t like what you hear. Your reading my writing anyway.
You should erase what you know like a blackboard in that Tyler Consolidated class room. Because while you laughed about the nerd walking in I was steady dreaming. Even the kid dreaming then is not who I am today. I know transformation as a caterpillar to a butterfly. I disappeared and I flew away. But I wont hide behind a shell. I will be the first to tell you that I hate the human population in general. All the superficial bullshit that you feel is important doesn’t make two sense worth of quality to me. I will also tell you I am the first to be the hypocrite. I know what I take for granted and I see it clearly every day what matters. I can call you superficial and saying your holding onto material but its not about that. Its about the im better than you because I wear nice clothes, I have the money. I can tell you from experience that I have lived both sides of the story. Id rather be the kid kicking a soccer ball around worrying about twenty bucks than the man I am materially now. Yeah I have the nice clothes, I have the money, the car. You laughed at the kid kicking the soccer ball the one that didn’t get invited to that party or date the high school hottie, but now your working that summer job at DQ serving him as he pulls out the plastic. Charge that shit…times will change you. Lets go back to the me that was scared to tell you how it was…shall we?
A brief background but I wont keep you hung up there. Im originally from West Virginia born to Steven and Nancy Chaplin and yes im a Jr. Anyone that has seen me now has seen my father decades ago. I am my father, but I am my mother as well. I came into this would early in that Loudon County hospital. I couldn’t wait for this world, but im sure it could wait on me. Two pounds Two ounces at one point and that’s why ill carry that as my lucky number. I’ve always been the small kid, the medium level kid. Never to good at anything that mattered. I can tell you that I knew more at a young age than most figure out as adults. I don’t know what it was but life just hit me. I found a fire in my heart for everything I set out to do. Whether it was being the smallest linebacker on the pee wee team or the things that aren’t really cool in your eyes. Yeah I think its legit to write poetry but im not a nerd. I lived in Tyler county my entire life and that’s where I plan to die. Not before I do some kicking and screaming however…..imma beat the hell out of this path of life.
