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4.2k · Oct 2013
Aged Adolescence
Rachel Ueda Oct 2013
13
first kiss
with a boy
man?
drinks in our
blood..
so
young....

14
second base
groped me
high on
hate
so
numb

15
our lips
weren't used
for kissing
I've had enough
so
done

16
self respecting
and confident
loving...
finally
so
happy

17
Just kidding
That was a dream
a temporary fantasy
Torn by real love

17.5
Real love
What I would give
To not know your
Sweetest remedy
20
Love within myself
Is the sweetest I have known
3.2k · Nov 2013
DNA
Rachel Ueda Nov 2013
DNA
I look at my mother
my father
photos of grandparents
****** structures change
clothes
hair

but the eyes
are always the
same.
sad.

but strong.

it makes me think,
is my crave for the blade genetic?
is my darkening depression
running through my veins?
am I fated to be this way forever
by the DNA I've been given?

and if that is so

if all the bad in me is just
genetic makeup
is the good in me the same thing?
the kindness
friendliness
all just programmed
into my mind?
am I nothing more than
an unbalanced
unfortunate
bag of chemicals?
can we find the strength
to diminish the bad
part of human instinct
or were some of us born
to fight a never ending war
of self destruction?
do we even have a choice?
2.6k · Nov 2013
uhhgg homework
Rachel Ueda Nov 2013
fifties music
and
Spanish homework
what a combination
time is ticking
and its all quite
an invitation
for my terminal
disease
procrastination
learning is intriguing
but I can hear my friends
calling me
it wont stop ringing !
Saturday afternoons
wanting to go and do
normal teen things
instead I do an overflowing
amount of useless ****
they don't teach me anything
give me a packet for every class
while you play pacman at you desk
wishing you had your adolescence back
sipping nasty black coffee
while we copy each others papers
confusion and boredom
pains us endlessly
will somebody in this *******
nation stand up for our education
and end my selfish procrastination?!
2.1k · Feb 2014
Rose colored eyes
Rachel Ueda Feb 2014
She sees the souls
In the flowers and trees
Hears the music
In jingling keys
She can find the light
In your black eyes
Accepts the need
Of ruthless lies
She sees the world
Yin yang
When all seems different
Nothing really changed
She sees beauty in
Everything
And everyone
All is perfection
So why do her
Rose colored eyes
Always cry
Upon her reflection
1.7k · Feb 2014
Meaningful Nothings
Rachel Ueda Feb 2014
Oh that old dirt road
Leading to my once
One and only home
I miss you.

You've been stained
With blood and tears
But blessed
With laughter and love

You led me to light

You were
a beacon
of hope

an escape

my ecstasy

my everything.

But in the end
your only just
An old dirt road

And my memories
Aren't written in stone
No, they left with the wind
So I shall make new ones
On another old dirt road
Again and again.
1.7k · Dec 2013
Sex
Rachel Ueda Dec 2013
***
isn't a guilty pleasure
its just pleasure
so ignite my
animal instinct
and let it
burn
1.7k · Feb 2014
Cupid missed
Rachel Ueda Feb 2014
I want sunflowers and razzels
Not chocolate and roses
I want to dance in the sun
Not kiss in the rain
I want a love
Not a valentine
1.6k · Mar 2016
Stolen moment
Rachel Ueda Mar 2016
Her heart is hers
But her hand was mine
In that stolen moment
We became intertwined

Every chance we could find
I found her skin and she found mine

Breathing steady
The pace never changed
We just loved
Like it was natural
To steal a moment
Where her heart was hers
But her touch was mine

I know she thinks of another
I know it's not only in one
She has found one of a kind

But for a night her love was mine
And my love was hers
In every touch
In every breath
In every glance
We dared to take

I know her heart is hers
I don't expect it to be mine
I have my own
With stolen moments
To keep it beating and alive
1.5k · Nov 2013
Crave
Rachel Ueda Nov 2013
I've yet to taste
The sweetness
Of your love
For the fear
Of always
Wanting
More
1.5k · Oct 2013
Hate
Rachel Ueda Oct 2013
I thought
Hate
Was like chickenpox
Now I think it's more like
******
1.5k · Jan 2015
Humble
Rachel Ueda Jan 2015
When
I remember myself
As a young girl

There was no devilish
Smile hidden in a
Hair twirl

I didn't make my
Face blank
Hiding
Letting others
Use it as a
Clean slate

I didn't endlessly
Rebuild
Myself a wall
That was flawed
To continually fall

I didn't close
My eyes
In hopes
Reality would
Freeze if I
Didnt
Try

So

I think its fair
To not claim these
Darknesses
As things
That were always
Lurking in my heart

But instead
A habit
Of self induced
Temptation
The most innocent
Protection
Rip yourself apart
Nobody will want
To taste if you're
****


I was free
And now
I want to
Be
1.4k · Oct 2013
...I need some cake
Rachel Ueda Oct 2013
Love her
bright eyes
Envy her
thighs
Look at that girls hair!
I wish I
had hers...
An that girls curves!!!
Such clear skin
And she's
oh so thin!!
Jealous of those
luscious lips
And those perfect hips!!

Oh..
Oh how I wish
1.3k · Nov 2013
Rooftops and White Wine
Rachel Ueda Nov 2013
I love this time of year
seducing the nights of November
faintly hearing my past self praying to my present
most of my skin bare, colliding with the falls frosty air
I can see the stars but feel the effortless boundaries of gravity
pounding
yet its somewhat comforting knowing I am contained

I become more human than spirit
with senses intact
and in truth, it feels good, feels present
to have the soul and mind separated

my human wrappings can still inhale the world and feel the touch of the dead
but it suppresses eternity
suffocates the inner philosopher that analyzes everything as more than known..seen

it hears the time ticking, senses the warmth of the clocks arms
feels the weight of the choices

In my present self, in my flesh, my skin
I can feel the beautiful ecstasy

of simply

sitting on my rooftop

and drinking white wine.
1.1k · Jan 2014
Balancing my sins
Rachel Ueda Jan 2014
Just another night
Of drunk
*******
And shity
Poems

But hell
I should at
least go to bed
Wishing you
all well
With love
Regan
1.0k · Nov 2013
You
Rachel Ueda Nov 2013
You
when I picture my future
you're in it
as a consoling
comforting
friend

when I picture my future
you're in it
as
mine
smiling at me
loving me

when I picture my future
you're in it
over long distant phone
calls and bittersweet
memories

when I picture my future
you're in it
walking away with
half my heart
leaving me half
of yours

when I picture my future
I
feel pain
sadness
love
joy
but no regret

because

when I picture my future
you're in it
962 · Dec 2013
evolution of the soul
Rachel Ueda Dec 2013
you grew up with a lot of
mommy didn't love me issues
and sooner than later
you ran out of tissues

smothering yourself in hate
you grew too afraid to change
take that leap of faith?

now your problems are
too deep
too old
to fix

its too late

you are a permanent creation
of your past situation
and even though your
bones are older
3rd generation
I grew from your
mistakes
learned
the better path
to take

I hate to say I don't miss you
but its true
I miss the person
I thought was you

but she died
along with my innocence
goodbye childhood blindness
life slapped me with a cold
and abrupt
"*** you grew up"

So with everlasting love
I say a final goodbye
bittersweet maybe
but sitting alongside
our closeted skeletons
is necessary pain

still
you need to
know that
your oblivious arrogance
wasn't in vain
your sacrifice
contributed to the evolution
of our souls
and in retrospect
it was worth the
overpriced toll
888 · Feb 2015
Shine bright
Rachel Ueda Feb 2015
You are a light
And while you
Might not be able
To see yourself
And how bright
You truly shine
Everybody else can
So when you look out
Into the darkness
That surrounds you
Notice the glow
That softens the
Darkness wherever
You go
Then remember
You're even brighter
Than you're halo
And even when you've
Turned off
You're still a light
That's meant to
Be bright
886 · Dec 2013
Better than mondaY
Rachel Ueda Dec 2013
Muunndannee

sunddayyyyyy

huhhh

get
out

of

the

warmmm
bed

clothed

in
white

6 am

everyone
still

sleeps

not a single



sound

in                    my

perpetually

c r eeeeak ing

house
...
stare off
                           into
space
....
lose myself
in

my!

mind


remember!
im
alive

panic!

panic attack

theres nothing

nothhhing..

1
2....
....3
4....

pills

still
still need

more

more..to fill

the nothing

that will always

be

my mundane

sunday
854 · Oct 2013
blame me
Rachel Ueda Oct 2013
I use to protect you
stepped on eggshells
around you

I would lie
for you
lie to you
I'd put you
before me

hate who you
hated
loved who you
loved

I tried to save you
I sacrificed my life
my emotions
morals
all
for
you

turned out
I broke you
even more
than before
and I broke
myself
too

I made you
think yourself
more than
you are
and made myself believe
it too

I blinded you
with good
intentions
and hurt myself
with bad
ones

my friend
I am very sorry
I killed you
with love
and fixed
myself with
hate
847 · Dec 2013
Written in blood
Rachel Ueda Dec 2013
All these poems are about
heartbreak and hate
self destruction and self abuse
most of our poetry
is just venting in a creatively wordy way
will any of these fake inked words make a difference  
A dent in the already dented world
What am I doing here?
What are you?
790 · Nov 2015
Sewing with no thimble
Rachel Ueda Nov 2015
That crooked smile
And those empty eyes
Get me every
******* time
789 · Nov 2013
Truth or Dare?
Rachel Ueda Nov 2013
I dared to love you
so you owe me the truth
will you take that dare
and love me too?
771 · Oct 2013
Surrender to Freedom
Rachel Ueda Oct 2013
everyone is bustling
rustling the bloodied leaves
not knowing
they are draining their conscious
straining their soul
hurting the world
as a whole
by pretending they don't feel
the restlessness
that caresses many of our lives
not looking up
seeming blind
they wont look at the truth
for the fear of a lie
but in the movement
of everyone's terror
content in what is
wrong
I
Feel it
And
I
Surrender
754 · Oct 2013
Could. Should! Would?
Rachel Ueda Oct 2013
We should know
That there's both
Good and bad
In a rich man
And a poor lad

We should have acceptance
Not judgement on
Religion and skins pigment

We shouldn't worry about
Your book smarts
But instead the kindness
In your heart

Maybe then we'll
Realize we are the same
And end our ego's
Foolish game.
743 · Mar 2014
Anonymous
Rachel Ueda Mar 2014
My entire life
Has been
dedicated
To creating
A web of lies
Stronger than
Any wall
The hurt
Dare to build

Nobody
knows
Me
Not even
My blood
Those whom
I call friends
I've hurt without
Them even
knowing
There is no
Secret lover
Who I've confessed
My sins
There is no
Stranger I once
Found redemption
In
And there is no story
Out there in the world
That it's truly mine

Not even these
Poems
I wrote to lazily
To make rhyme
741 · Oct 2013
Untitled
Rachel Ueda Oct 2013
I am
The night
Deceiving
and mysterious
A comfort to those
Who are comfortably
Delirious

I am
A flower
Who bathes in rain
And dances in the sun
Oblivious to
pain

I am
An animal
That should not be
Contained
Something
Wild and free
Never to be
tamed

I am
A woman
Strong and proud
But still just a single
Voice
In a bustling
Crowd

I am
A soul
Wrapped up in
Skin
Fleeing my body
And all of its
Sins
Any title suggestions?
697 · Mar 2014
I'm not gonna sugar coat it
Rachel Ueda Mar 2014
Loving an addict comes with a price
It NEVER gets easier watching someone
Blindly commit suicide
697 · Mar 2014
Do I Dare
Rachel Ueda Mar 2014
I look at you
Into those
Blue green
Eyes

I feel it

The feeling

The indescribable
Heart racing
Heart stoping
Feeling

You smile and
It spreads across
My lips like a
Sweet disease

There's no doubt
my love for you is real
But my best friend
Are you a risk
I'm willing to take?

Giving away my
Heart so freely
Will it break?
680 · Oct 2013
Home is where the heart is
Rachel Ueda Oct 2013
I live in a house
that is not a home
and never will be
my mother tries to understand why
why do you not feel at home?
what did we do wrong?
well to tell you the truth

the walls feel confining
but it was not the architects mistake

the rooms seemed unloved
unlived in
but not because you didn't
love me

the floor seems to ache like my bones
but that isn't because the home is old

I feel uncomfortable in this house
you tried so hard to make a home
because to me
home is where your heart lies
and my heart roams
free

my home is the trees
and the sun
the cool breeze
the warm soft dirt
the sun baked raspberries
and chewed up sweet peas

my home is the
tears that have fallen
the lessons that were learned
(repeatedly)
the smiles that we have shared
laughs and snorts
love and hate

my home is the world
and this house is indeed
a part of the earth
but my dearest mother
it will never be my home.
667 · Nov 2013
Invisible lines
Rachel Ueda Nov 2013
Ignorance may be bliss
and
wisdom might
lead you to success
but both
are a sort of
imprisonment
Only broken
By
death
662 · Oct 2013
Repeat after me
Rachel Ueda Oct 2013
Dear repeat after me
marry had a little lamb

dear repeat after me
humpty dumpty had a great fall


dear repeat after me

why?
why repeat after thee?

repeat after me
and you shall see

and with time
and every nursery rhyme

I did see
she taught me to read

she gave me the key
Its sad that these days not many moms or dads read to their children on a regular basis. Well at least not where I am from.
600 · Dec 2014
My other half
Rachel Ueda Dec 2014
My chest hurts as I inhale the smoke
But the nicotine lifts a greater pain
Something born in my darkest of days
I sit on my roof
Looking out at the stars
Listening to the endless
stream of far away cars

There is something inside my soul
Thick, black, cynical and cold
But without it I would not be whole

I've tried to burn it and bury it
But relentlessly it conquered me
And not until I decided
To befriend it did I see
When I refused to acknowledge
It's existence, it was all that existed
And when I invited it in
It sat by the fire an listened

Sometimes we bicker and
Hate each other
It really likes to play with
My ticker
Most of the time I win
And it becomes as small
As a pin
Yet occasionally it demands it's
Turn to be
And I let it envelop me like a sea
We both have thrones
But sometimes I have to bow
And let it marinate my bones
565 · Oct 2013
Pour yourself a glass
Rachel Ueda Oct 2013
Drink over drugs
Was always my preference
Why? You say
Well drugs have a large price to pay
Drink may **** my liver
And make  my conscience quiver
But it's about mastering your pace
With drugs it's a constant race

It taunts and teases
Pretending it pleases

How fast can you lose yourself?
How long can you keep reality on a shelf?

It leads you to a darkness
Hidden away deep in your mind
Something with thorns an loves forlorn
No it's not kind

Drink can ease my pain
In time of weakness
But drugs have a keenness
To devour you

So pour yourself a glass
Have a cry and a laugh
And bask in the rain
That your still sane.
551 · Nov 2013
Untitled
Rachel Ueda Nov 2013
Eyes open
to pale blue light
tinted grey
soft motions
clothing
body
creeping out
the creaking door
breathing in
the "cold" California
air
running
feet
concrete
pounding
music playing
heart beating
mouth smiling
laughing
eyes crying
to the sheer irony
of feeling so alive
in the season
the world
decides
to die.
I felt so good this morning and went for a jog. It was DEAD silent haha. just thought it was funny
548 · Oct 2014
Unfortunate love
Rachel Ueda Oct 2014
I miss how it felt to hold
my life in my lips
How when lit, you instantly became
a passing ship
I miss the power I felt
Breathing in death
Knowing my cards weren't dealt
Not yet
It curled softly through my teeth
And into my lungs
It didn't hurt
Why didn't it hurt
Maybe I just liked how it burnt
476 · Mar 2014
Sin of choice
Rachel Ueda Mar 2014
Piercing hot water
Stabs my flesh
But no matter how
Hard I scrub
I can't get it of my
Chest
I tried bathing
In bleach
But it just burned
It in deeper
I tried bowing my
Head and ask
For forgiveness
But all I got was
Mumbled words in
A silent deliverance
I opened the
Darkness in the
Holes of my heart
Remembering the evil
In hopes I could
See it as painful art
But no matter how
Hard I try
I cannot purge
Myself of my oldest
Addiction
And I know it's time
To hand myself my own
Conviction
474 · Apr 2016
Self Help Parking Lots
Rachel Ueda Apr 2016
Therapists
Psychologists
Pill popping
Prescription lists
Cars pulling in
People coming out
Parents
Children
Strangers and friends
Love and hate
Painted across their face

Help

Give it take it

Here we are all vulnerable
A band on our arm
A mark on our face
Insecurities aren't invisible in a self help parking lot

Bulimics naw their lips in harmony
Depressed teens exchange empty glances
Worried parents sympathize in pen clicks
Anxiety covers us all in musical foot taps

we are all lost
we are all hurt

Unity
Is what I found
In the self help
Parking lot
474 · Jan 2014
Day dreamer
Rachel Ueda Jan 2014
I wish I was a bird
I could fly
Fly far away

I wish I was a butterfly
Beautiful
Love myself
Everyday

I wish I was sunshine
Spreading love
And keeping you warm

I wish I was the wind
Flowing free
Even in the storm

I wish
I didn't
Need to
Wish
Anymore
473 · May 2016
sometimes we lose
Rachel Ueda May 2016
I was chasing a girl

Who was chasing a thrill

Was  I ?

I kissed her

I think she could taste the fear

Could she ?

I love her

She loves... Her

No question there
463 · Aug 2014
I'm trying to try
Rachel Ueda Aug 2014
I wake up in the morning and remind myself that I am not mourning any more
I get myself out of bed and try to get out of my own head
I look at my reflection as I get dressed and tell myself it is perfection
I eat my breakfast without stepping on the scale that kept me restless
I name the people who care as I brush out my knotty hair
I remember all the reasons worth living for as grudgingly step out the door
I let the ***** air fill my chest and find reassurance in that one day my pain will be at rest

Try harder
I tell myself
458 · Oct 2013
Do you hear me now?
Rachel Ueda Oct 2013
My lies use to fill my mind
I use to shove them aside
My icy interior
Could never hear
The lies screaming
And teasing
So I smiled on
Believing my guilt was gone

Now my lies
Aren't afraid to hide
They burn my soul
Try to eat me whole
Their silence is loud
And they sit very proud
That they made me see
Just how mean I can be
451 · Jan 2014
Social Experiment
Rachel Ueda Jan 2014
Its funny to see
how many hearts
I can get when
I heart your poem
and when I don't

what brings you here?
my venting?
my half-assed art?
or is it when I
satisfy you with a
click of a mouse?

don't deny
that warm
comfort
of strangers
appreciation

true or false
you still grin
418 · Aug 2014
He didn't answer
Rachel Ueda Aug 2014
What if it isn't enough
What if nothing ever is
What if the pain doesn't go away
What if I don't find the light
What if I hurt you
What if I hurt everyone
What if I'm too weak
What if I go mad
What if I'm always alone
What if I can't get up again

What if I took too many pills
What if slit my wrists and let the blood spill
What if I pulled the trigger
Or kicked the chair
Would I find the answer there ?
418 · Oct 2014
For They Did Not Know
Rachel Ueda Oct 2014
It watched the boy
The young boy
The old soul
It saw him
Every part
He had too much
good
He had too much
evil
He saw too much
So he thought too much
The world was too big
And he too small
To conjure up motive to try

It watched the girl
The young girl
The old soul
She had flowers in her hair
And fire in her eyes
She felt too much
she felt too little
She escaped too much
she was too big
And the world too
Little

It saw them both
They were extremes
Happiness was once theirs
In their innocence
In their dreams
Sadness is what they own now
It took over after their 1s, 2s, 3s
It feels permanent
It just might be

It sees them
So it asks them
If you can't be happy
If you don't find that light
If ignorance cannot be bliss
Will it be enough to be content?

They didn't answer
406 · Apr 2015
Run faster habit rabbit
Rachel Ueda Apr 2015
There is this thing
It's a grey thing
A plain thing
A thing for all
Things
Well...
All beings

For some
This thing
Is the wind beneath
Their wings

For others its a ring

From a store
Or a *****

Maybe it's that thrill which
Shakes them to the core

Or the candies they take
Before they end up on
... That one guys floor.
What the hell happened
Before ?

This thing can be many things
But one thing about this thing
Is it .. Confuses many beings.

And confused beings like
To have an opinion about things.

Some think the thing is a bad thing
Some think the thing is a good thing
But
If I've learned anything
About things
It's that
Your thing is a thing
Black white
Or grey
Every being has the same thing
And what you got to think about
Your thing is not if the thing is bad or good but if the the thing is bad or good for your being
402 · Dec 2014
Smirk me almighty smirker
Rachel Ueda Dec 2014
When I asked for answers
He answered in a riddle:

If life is black and white
How do you fly a grey kite?
395 · Nov 2013
Listen to the trees
Rachel Ueda Nov 2013
In their beauty
they stand still
with brothers and sisters
or alone on a hill

they watch us without eyes
not our bodies
but our souls
and unlike us
their kindness never dulls

they give
all they've got
even if your soul
is about to rot

and they have more wisdom
then all that's been
written

you

you just have to sit
and
listen
394 · Oct 2013
It will always be you
Rachel Ueda Oct 2013
I stare at you
from across the room
We're friends but the line is somewhat blurred
By stupid words said in the wisest of times
I fell in lust with you but you didn't lust me too
So I sold my innocence upon a man who didn't know what he had taken
Now I'm left without the crave of touch but instead the need for love
And undeniably true
I still look to you
381 · Feb 2014
Ink
Rachel Ueda Feb 2014
Ink
Even when I've
Nothing to say
I write
373 · Dec 2015
Everyday Adventure
Rachel Ueda Dec 2015
Scrolling through the feed
So much pain
Poems of the slain

Embrace your sadness
Revel in the anger
Cherish your happiness
Dance with danger


My friends it's only game
It's only a day
It's only forever
It's practically never

You'll be okay
We will all be okay

It's always and forever
The Land Of Happy
Have you been to the land of happy,
Where everyone's happy all day,
Where they joke and they sing
Of the happiest things,
And everything's jolly and gay?
There's no one unhappy in Happy
There's laughter and smiles galore.
I have been to The Land of Happy-
What a bore

by Shel Silverstein
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