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Chelsea Rae Jan 2018
Almost wanting to be calloused over
Except not with skin.
Cage me in.

Trap the rawness that I have.
Gloss over all that is inside.

I will peel it off
In time, but
For now,
Cage me in.
Chelsea Rae Apr 2018
He was like going on a walk early in the morning with falling snow.

That same quiet peace that muffles the air

Was why he was my chosen home.
He makes me calm <3
Chelsea Rae Sep 2017
So many dead inside.
Scraping up the left over remnants of their hearts.
Like melted wax that dripped down their rib cage.
We scratch off what has dried onto our bones
Desperate to try to make another candle heart to burn.
I don't know where this came from this morning.
Chelsea Rae Apr 2020
I wish
I found
Anyone
Who could vibe with my crazy,
Untamed mind.

The possibilities are endless
If you're willing to go on an adventure
With my thoughts.

**** getting to know my demons
Because they hardly exist.

Take my hand and indulge in all of my
What if's.

And yes I am a broken record
That always spins.

I'm sorry for the unpredictable
Predictability.
Chelsea Rae Sep 2022
Life is a **** deal.

No matter how great the cheap thrills, tricks, and food is,

It isn't worth its counterpart.

The pain isn't worth this chaos carnival ride

And the only ones who think it is

Are the clowns.
Life's a joke.
Chelsea Rae Mar 2021
For some reason I keep thinking
That love is getting swept up
By a tornado,

But really I should be grateful
For the soft, light breezes
That delicately float between
The tiny hairs on my cheek.

The way it silently bends
In gently moving peace,
And dips down ever softly for a kiss,
Before it slowly leaves.
Chelsea Rae Jul 2019
I'm starting to wonder if anyone will ever find me.

Or will I keep getting widdled away by each person I come across?

A notch away from being absolutely nothing at all..
Chelsea Rae Sep 2019
We are all canvasses walking around,
Clueless, that we are also the painter.

What kind of masterpiece are you going to make?
Chelsea Rae Oct 2020
Every day feels like another nail in the coffin lid
but almost like it doesn't have any point anymore.

There's no use in continuing to hammer it in
When I'm not dying fast enough.

I waste away slowly inside,
Chipping pieces away from my soul.

Such boring existence.
Repetitive and old.
Patterns that remain the same.
Around and around we go.
Chelsea Rae Oct 2019
Our charcoals are dying down
But you are trying to rush in
Breathing as fast as you can
On something that can't
Reignite.
Chelsea Rae Jul 2017
I just want to be the weird, quirky rock
You just can't walk away from,
So you pick me up and put me in your pocket.

And when you get home you place me somewhere special and keep me even though you aren't sure why
Chelsea Rae Dec 2017
You could say instead of using her eyes to see the world

She used her heart to look through a kaleidoscope of colors.  

Loving the twisting images and finding the beauty

in every odd shape

this life has to offer.
Dreamy Girl
Chelsea Rae Jun 2017
If I reached for your hand
Would I feel flesh or bone?

You are brittle and cold,
Searching for more than one person
can ever hold.

No one can love you back to life
Without at least a spark in your dying heart.

I hope the fire you start
Gives you the warmth you've been looking for.

I hope your bones ignite and turn to ash.
Maybe as you rise, when you return
You won't let anyone convince you
That you're something in need to be saved.

Come back to life.
You are not dead
And only you will choose to stay here
In this empty grave you've made.
Random thoughts that just come out of my head for who knows why.
Chelsea Rae Dec 2020
Eventually the self work becomes
Another abandoned dream
Because if you go deep enough within
You'll find your wall.

The wall is the limit.

You don't know how to push past this one, or even if you do,
You know you're a coward.
Or a victim.
Or a failure.
Or a loser.
Or whatever it is, you know that
You can't do it.
You've convinced yourself.
You stay miserable to stay comfortable.

The impossible wall, which really,
Isn't that impossible at all.

You just are stuck
In a looping perspective of fear.

Haven't mustered the courage to
Make the jump
Just yet.
Chelsea Rae May 2020
I think at times like this

I blame You.

I burn with such an intense hatred for my pure existence.

I didn't want this.

You created me and I have seen too much to believe You don't exist.

I know you hear me.

I know You hear me cussing and cursing the Universe and shouting until my throats raw and my lungs give out.

I'm defeated.

And when my tantrum is over and
I've cried and pouted, sat with it for as long as I could...

Then the worst realization always
Begins to sink into my bitterness.

Now to return in humility and fealty.
To come to You at my knees
And admit my powerlessness without You.

Begging in vulnerability for some
******* help.
For love and support,
My apologies with open heart.

Existing is painful so I blame You.
Existing is blissful so I thank You.
.  .  .
Being You must **** too.

But oh,
How I strive to be just like You.
Venting my frustrations with God about God. Struggling to understand my meaning of life.
Chelsea Rae Sep 2017
Is there a way to explain that you are connected and intertwined with stars and trees, roots and flowers and bees?

Lay here on this ground with me
Look at all the clouds you see,
Can you feel it too?

That time stands still in the breath of a moment.
When you're on the tip of the tongue,
When you're almost there
Almost home.
found this in my drafts
Chelsea Rae Dec 2018
You don't even know the power you have over me.

The tiniest thing could melt me.

The way just a lick could send me caving in,
Like cotton candy,
Dissolving
Into
You.
Chelsea Rae Apr 2019
How will you ever learn to fly

if you don't let your feet

leave the ground?
Face your fears.
Chelsea Rae Dec 2020
I have this desire lately
To become one with the
Spaces in between the stars.

The darkness,
The black matter
Where there is nothing
But also everything.

To be One,
Whole,
Infinity.
Chelsea Rae Dec 2017
I have read articles stating that we are light beings from somewhere beyond this plain.
I have been told my whole life that I am made in God's image.
I have read that maybe we have multiple lives we have yet to live and have already lived.
I have also been told we came from apes and tadpoles
Or that we were created by a gigantic explosion in space.
Some even say we came from nothing and will return to nothing.

All I know to be true is that I hope that no matter how I was created
No matter how I came to be,
That I hope that it was worth making me.

Please tell me that this isn't all the life I get because this just is not enough for my soul to feel fed.
Let me age with grace and good God or Goddess,
take me somewhere I can finally be felt on a level that this mortality limits.
I need a love and a passion deeper than this soul can already feel.
I need to be home and I might not have a single memory of where my spirit was born
but I sure as hell know it will never be Earth.
Homesick?
Chelsea Rae Oct 2019
Stand tall and triumph.
Show them that you don't wear your crown on your head
but on your heart.

Show them that love rules all.
DM + DF
Chelsea Rae Sep 2016
If there is anything so far in this world that I truly understand,
It is that of soul misery.

The kind that leaves you feeling hollow or empty,
An ache that is so subtle
You're not sure if there is a pain.

The kind of misery that comes from the hearts of gold
And a soul
That knows there's so much more than this.

The pure innocents who love the world around them,
And cry and break
To watch it be as cruel as it is sometimes.

If there's anything I've learned from
Stepping into adulthood,
It would be that.
Chelsea Rae Oct 2019
Sometimes I really worry
That the grief will eventually
Be so weighted on my chest
That I won't even be able to take
My next breath.
Chelsea Rae Sep 2019
The longer I go on
The more am I amazed by the way pain can take us in it's hands like a fresh sheet of paper
And crush us into a tiny crinkled ball of mess.

But the cool thing about us humans is
How we flatten ourselves back out
Wrinkle by wrinkle,
And we can fold ourselves
Into beautiful works of origami
Over and over and over again.
Chelsea Rae Sep 2021
The cry it out method must have
Stemmed from God.

Because you know
They hear the wails
yet they do nothing.
Cry it Out Method
Chelsea Rae Nov 2022
It is weird to love someone

So elusive.

I was drawn into the mystery,

To find it's only there

To hide the lies.
Curiosity killed the cat.
Chelsea Rae Oct 2020
I always was scared of the way your eyes would start to light up
When you were excited.
The way I could see the gears crank and turn in your head with a million questions because you face never hid your inner world well.

You had eyes that looked up at the stars in the night sky
And somehow thought you would learn about them each individually.
A mind too wide, a heart too loving, a soul too curious.

I always was taught that curiosity killed the cat.
That is wasn't good, that it was rather bad.
I wanted to keep you safe but nothing could ever stomp your fire.
I stayed close, to make sure to protect, if dire.

Instead I watched you bravely fumble and fall,
Learning how to get better everyday.
Learning how to follow your dreams, your whims, and fickle wishes of the day.

I feel like something sparked in me from watching you.
Maybe one of your embers were sent flying
From your crackling and roaring spirit
and lit my heart aflame.

Now I feel like I can follow you,
Follow you straight into the light,
Into the sun.
Always be yourself <3
Chelsea Rae Dec 2017
The world acts like I am the crazy one for loving without restraint.
As if it is some rare currency that they will run out of and they hide and bury it.
Spending it on only those they deem have enough value.
Love
Chelsea Rae May 2021
A soul purge so deep

That no one could be there to hold me in it.

A fire so englufing,
that if anyone had tried they'd have just been burned.
I lose control and only love the ones I have hurt.
How does that work?

The surrounding sounds muffle out as my chest caves in.
The kind of silence you endure as your surroundings completely disappear.

All you can feel is your chest pain burning like a thousand suns about to incinerate you alive.

You fight the urge to become a rage-induced animal
Because the pain is unbearable and no one gives a ****
and even if they do they CAN'T do anything about it.

I have to swallow it all and digest it.
I have to fight to not be overcome by it all.

But what do you do when you feel like your soul
is being filleted alive, soul stripped in all directions,
Bare, and ******* raw now..

The shedded lining burnt to a crisp in tatters across the floor around me and the pieces charred flying through the air.

Another phoenix stage of rising through the ashes
But where the **** does the sky take me?

I have been here before.

There is no where to go.

I give up.

I cut off my new wings.
******* God. I don't want to go down this road anymore.
Chelsea Rae Jul 2020
The layers of pain that exist
Are so much deeper than the very
Layers of Earth's crust
Before you get to her core.

So
Much
Pain
That comes and goes.
That never stops
But definitely slows.
Sinking into the quicksand.
Dragging me through and
under the mud.
Buried by the layers
Of it all.
Chelsea Rae Sep 2018
The damage was inside her,
Like the blood coursing in her veins.

Invisible cracks running under her porcelain skin.
Scars from the erosion of constant
Toxicity.

There's nothing more I wish to do
Than to fill in the cracks.

Sand and polish her
Back to prestine condition.

The way she was before the world
Wore her down.
Some people are just too far gone.
Chelsea Rae Apr 2019
I was a wonder among them.

They were so used to seeing statues.

Froze.

Like red and green light

Changing poses but still

Making sure we don't

Impose.

Then when one finally decided to

Dance with the rhythm of thier soul

They didn't know what else to do

Other than stare in amazement.

The way we do the stars.
I decided to rework this one a bit and thought I'd repost.
Be YOU.
Even it's vulnerable. Even if it's uncomfortable.
Do it.
Chelsea Rae Apr 2019
I was a wonder among them.

They were so used to seeing statues.

Froze.

Like red and green light

Changing poses but still

Making sure we don't

Impose.

Then when one finally decided to

Dance with the rhythm of thier soul

They didn't know what else to do

Other than stare in amazement.

The way we do the stars.
BE YOU. Even if it's uncomfortable. Even if it's vulnerable. Do it.
Chelsea Rae Jul 2021
I twist the black smoky quartz crystal between my fingers,

Staring into the void of the darkness in it's shimmer,

Remembering how the stars predicted

That I would be, and am destructive.

I used to be the angelic who thought they could do no wrong.

Never fathoming dancing with the Devil.

Oh but not I, no longer.

Satan himself sees me at the ball and bows.

He knows to kiss my rings

Cause what a privilege it'd be to waltz with me.

Lilith my Mother, the one who will never bow.

I glide my tongue across my canine's

Only imagining the fangs of a lion.

I am a fallen angel, who painted her wings black.

I stare with blank deranged eyes, knowing I could disconnect

From whatever little soul I have left at a moment's notice

If it means ripping out throats to get what I want.

There is a fire roaring in my charcoal heart

And all I want is pure power.

More power, ferocious all consuming power.

But nay, not over the everyday people,

Only those who dare cut their eyes at me the wrong way,

the ones who question what I am capable of,

The ones who try to steal freedom,

and most importantly,

The ultimate power over myself completely.  

I stare at the crystal and throw my head back in a deep maniacal laugh, reverberating through my throat.

They have no idea who I am to become,

and really neither do I but one thing I do know is,

No one will be able to match my fire.
Muahahahaha! I will become better, stronger, and free.
Chelsea Rae Mar 2020
Your ideas of grandeur
Don't do you any favors
And if anything they only hinder.

Reality poking holes
In the big picture
You imagined;
Making it only
Half as great as you thought.

Sometimes I wish I could fight
The escapist in me.

The part of me
living off of daydreams.
Shooting the stars into my veins
Like straight ******.

Creating bigger and bigger ideas
Because the starry night makes us feel like the world is so big and expansive that maybe someone like you could be destined to change it all.

My, my...
How wrong you are.

You're such a small insignificant speck that the universe would swallow you whole and not even think twice about it.

But you keep dreamin'..
Because we both know you'd never survive without that at least.
#olddrafts
Chelsea Rae Sep 2016
If you stepped into my soul right now
I'm afraid you would find
A snap underneath your feet
From the thin branches
That have fallen in defeat.

You'd walk through a forest of leafless trees,
And a chilling kiss upon your neck
From a too cold breeze.

No birds or life, not a single sound and the colorless leaves have made a blanket on the ground,
Grey clouds following overhead.

If you walked through me right now
You'd see how everything is dry
And dead.
Chelsea Rae Mar 2019
I drop them in the footsteps I am leaving behind as I walk my path.

The untruths I have carried inside me for so long.

Little to big stones, I press them between my thumb and fore finger,

Feeling the edges and smoothness as they slide through and drop.

I leave the things no longer serving me

And walk towards something better

With lighter step.
Chelsea Rae Jan 2018
Loneliness is a flesh eating parasite.
I watch my skin get eaten away and see my bones uncovered from underneath like roots
Peeking through dirt.

Hang my skeleton up on a wall
Surrounded by growing flowers for display
Since the me I am now
Isn't beautiful enough to be given the time of day.
Love having no friends.
Chelsea Rae Aug 2019
Hold me delicately,
Like the soft, leather petals
You caress between your fingertips,
And slip me in between the pages
Of your favorite love story
To keep me
Forever.
Chelsea Rae Jul 2020
Oh how deliciously in love I am
With the you I made in my head.
I'm quite fond of daydreams.
It keeps away the dread.

Toxic fantasies.
Tantalizing delicacies.

Lies so sweet that they almost feel real.
Deceit to myself
Has always been better
Than anybody else.

I could bathe myself in the darkness.
Rubbing it into my every pore.
Licking it off my fingertips
As if it's the most decadent dark chocolate,
As it rains and drips down my
Cream colored body ever so slowly,
Like black, hot, candle wax.

I surrender.

I succumb to it.
I let the pure dark
Touch me in every place I ever tried to hide and cover.
I tried to deny my own animal
And now I'm ready to be ravished.
Teeth and nails sunk in.
Desperately clawing my soft skin,
Breaths that hardly make it in.
Agonizing for release.

I surrender.
Here for the taking.
Naked and bare.
And God I want you,
ohhh how
I want you.
Please - Noah Kahan
Chelsea Rae Nov 2022
I'm so desperate for peace
That a part of me
Is tempted to do something
Drastic to get it.

Like jump off a building
Thinking I'll fly.
Its eating me.
Chelsea Rae Apr 2017
I picked up a bottle
With a liquid that burned like fire.
I looked at the label
And there it said Desire.

It burned up my insides
And torched my heart.

To this day I still have a scorched tongue
And words turn to ash.
But my heart still aflame
Feels more than anyone cares to ask.

It seems I still don't have enough spark
Or even enough heat
To make something more in life
Than just ends meet.

I drank from a bottle of liquid fire
And the directions said,
You gotta reach higher.
Chelsea Rae Apr 2018
Please someone,
Anyone out there,
Come to me and destroy me.

Reduce me to nothing more than
Glass turned to sand on the floor.
Pieces so tiny there is no chance of repair.

Force me to stop seeing light in blackened caves.
To stop searching for rainbows in the storm.
Make me stop believing in Angels
And realize there is nothing left here
But demons.

I need an eye opening heartbreak so deep that I stop believing fantasy
And start to see reality.

Bring me out of the clouds,
Away from my daydreams,
And make me into a hardened statue
Just like all the rest.
I want to start not giving a single **** about anyone but myself, not trusting people, being alone with just me and my cat. I'm done.
Chelsea Rae Oct 2019
If I could set you on fire with the flames that fly off my tongue I would
But I think you'd like it too much.
Quite the ******* I've found.

My hatred for you,
A never ending pit of hell.
Sparked from agony and knowing
You've never wished me well.

The devil tries to hide behind your eyes,
But you can see him when you smile.
I'll never trust you again.
Chelsea Rae Oct 2019
I said, "go **** yourself,"
But really my soul was trying to say, "go find yourself."
I still care. I just can't do the indecision and confusion.
Chelsea Rae Feb 2019
I'm so beyond tired of flipping through this book
Trying to be on the same page as you.
Chelsea Rae Mar 2017
Do you ever have feelings that live inside you
So foreign
To any human language
That it feels as though you will never begin to be able to describe them?
Side thoughts
Chelsea Rae Dec 2020
Do you still look for me

In all the people

You constantly escape in

To forget you're running from

How much you hate yourself?
Chelsea Rae Mar 2019
Do they know how hard it is to roar as a lion
When you feel like the mouse?

Do they know how hard it is to leave the nest
When this has been you're only home?

Do they know how hard it is to
Spread your wings and fly
When the ground is all you've ever known?

Do they know?

When they watch you day after day
They should know,
Shouldn't they?
How strong we are now that we mustered up enough courage
To jump
And soar.

Do you know
How brave
You really are?
Chelsea Rae Feb 2019
I almost don't even remember you..
I keep going back to try but
You feel like a dream.

One where the memory is fading
Like when you try to hold on as
You wake up
But it's slowly disappearing
As the morning sunrise shines through the window..

Sometimes I just want to fall back asleep
To make it continue.
Other times, I'm glad it's just black.
The beginning of the end.
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