Wow! Chelsey I'm in love with this poem!!! It is beautiful, motivating, and inspiring! I love inspiring poems and this poem really motivated me to rethink my life and try harder to achieve my goals! Thank you for that!!

First, I love the structure... It seemed more like a story than a poem, which I loved. I like how after each stanza you had one word that summarized it in a way or what you were feeling in that moment.

Second, I love the idea of Life being a woman!! I like that you personified life and made her a woman (power to women haha!) :)

I love these lines:

"I realized I've been living backwards.
Life has run me, instead of me running it."

"Please, I invite those who have belittled me,
used me, mistreated me, mocked me,
pull up a chair and watch as I hold the hand
of success and marry it."

This whole poem was such a joy to read. I love it and it's something I can relate to right now!!!

Great job hon :)

Chels Chels! I love it!!!

Your title made me wonder what this would be and I was shocked actually, I love your attitude in this one, it is like you are standing up in front of the whole world and saying no one can beat you.

I like how write the stanza and then add in a word follwing this which is like your revision on the stanza and your feelings now toward it. Brilliant idea and you pulled it off.

I adore the description of dreams in here and dreamers, your use of the well wishers, shooting stars etc is very unique to add to a poem and i think we have all done one of them and believe in certain things. I know no one can achieve their dreams unless the follow them through which is why I think you found the perfect word in Determined.

Love this one :) xxxx

You told me about this poem during one of our chats and I read it, and I understood everything you were saying, I was just unable to comment on it at that point, but now I've come back to it, because
1) I love it
2) It's inspirational and I need to read it again
3) Because it deserves my best attempts at a comment

I can't critique anything...but it shows your strength, it shows hope, it gives hope, it gives strength, it is a poem so expertly written, and it needs more views, it needs to be read by everyone, anyone who is having a hard day...this is in my favourites, it just makes me want to achieve things, it makes me want to get out of this depression I'm in, it gives me something to grasp, reality that things can improve, that I can choose a different path.

I love all the metaphors, all the little addition, the way we wish, and dream on stars, and wells and stuff.

This piece is just pure gold Chelsey, seriously, it is...

Hats off to you for writing this...

love you
x