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359 · Nov 2014
I probably still love you.
Makenzie Marie Nov 2014
I say stop
but of course you go.
I tell you what I don't want
but I know it's what you do.
I can't help myself
it's you.
But I'm trying to say,
I can't want you,
I don't want to.
Because I no longer trust
that I can trust my heart with you.
I can't trust you with my heart.
At least,
that's the only thing you've showed me is true.
If anything
you've taught me
to do everything in my power
not to love you.
But still
somehow
I do.

But oh my gosh
I don't want to.
If it's you reading this you probably know that it's about you, so there's not much else I can or need to say I don't know.
Makenzie Marie Dec 2014
I miss you already
And I can't say
That I wish you would stay
But I do wish
That the time
will pass quick.
So there's won't
Be too much time to miss
Your perfection.
358 · May 2019
If you’re a bird...
Makenzie Marie May 2019
You are not a bird to be locked in a cage. The door is unlocked—. Fly as high as you can and discover it all. Fly as fast as you can and feel something. Fly as slow as you can and experience everything.
354 · Nov 2018
Learning and unlearning
Makenzie Marie Nov 2018
I don’t want you to learn what I am trying to learn to be an untruth:
That enduring through pain is somehow worth it at the chance of reciprocated love.


Please remember:
You are always enough.
Makenzie Marie Aug 2019
If I am not your peace, will you come home to me 10 years from now after a stressful work day and want to talk to me? Especially if there are problems in life? Or will you come home emotionally numb and f** me and then shut me out all over again? Why is this your coping mechanism?
Fears created by years and years of trauma and abuse and manipulation. Triggered by the smallest thing.
354 · Feb 2015
You are amazing
Makenzie Marie Feb 2015
Hey, you
are stronger than you know
And I promise that it shows
Even if you don't see
You're more powerful than you think
You can acomplish anything
even when it feels like you're sinking.
you've got it in you
to prove
everyone wrong.

you. are. strong.
Please believe it.
350 · Nov 2014
nonsensical fundamentals
Makenzie Marie Nov 2014
I contradict myself.
I know.
But it's only because
I really don't know
What I want.

In any case
I plan to continue
My paradoxical ramblings
and nonsensical thoughts.
Because how else am I supposed to get my mind across
the gap created
by my indecision?

Disreguard me
if you will.
Because nothing that escapes my lips lately
is of much consequence anyway,
really.

Though I guess if you have the desire
and attention
to listen close
to my lack of direction,
You might discover
that something in me
is slowly progressing.

It's all nonsense
and mumbled nothings.
But I guess
sometimes
It's really something.
348 · Mar 2019
Praying
Makenzie Marie Mar 2019
Some nights
I pray the Lord my soul to keep
And in His mercy,
let me die as I sleep.

But instead
He fills me with His view of reality
And in His mercy
He brings me His peace.
341 · Oct 2019
Find a penny, pick it up...
Makenzie Marie Oct 2019
“You mean everything to me.”
He whispers, earnestly.
How did I even get this lucky?
341 · Nov 2018
Untitled
Makenzie Marie Nov 2018
Simple honesty,
Consistent transparency,
That is what you give me.
Everything happening so organically.
333 · Oct 2019
Pinch Me
Makenzie Marie Oct 2019
This all feels like a dream— the highest are so high and the hues are so pure but just like when I’m dreaming, when something hurts it burns and stings and bleeds.
Makenzie Marie Jul 2015
I feel like I crossed oceans for you.
And I feel like instead of even crossing puddles for me you've been splashing me with the water in the gutter and telling me that it's raining, because you know that the rain captivates me and you're sorry that you got my hair wet.
I feel like I crossed oceans for you and soaked my soul in my desire for you and you couldn't even step across a puddle for me, even though it was only inches deep.
329 · May 2019
Untitled
Makenzie Marie May 2019
Remember that even without me you are everything.
Makenzie Marie Oct 2019
“It’s not you,” You tell me.
But I can’t make you see that security is always fleeting. But I will not be. And I just want that to be enough.

I just want to be enough.
9/17/19
I think I’ve calmed your mind on this subject, now. I hope I have.
325 · May 2015
All We Are
Makenzie Marie May 2015
hollow words and hollow hearts, searching for the missing parts.
Makenzie Marie May 2015
This silence
Between us
Used to make my heart
Believe in love.

But maybe
The truth you hid
Is that it's just
lust
And lies
And cloudy skies.

Now it's...
Something wrong
a skipped line in your favorite song
And a city collapsing
Under the weight of our unsaid words
Everything going unheard.

I know the weight
that your tone of voice carries.
It's scary.
And I know you can hear the meaning
Behind my "I'm sorry"

And I'm sorry about that.
2am isn't the same anymore.
318 · Sep 2019
Much better.
Makenzie Marie Sep 2019
You are so different from him. You are so different from all of them.
Makenzie Marie Feb 2015
And just when I think I'm okay...
"What are those scars on your leg?"
"just don't worry about it" I say
it's all going to hell
I don't know what else
there is
to say about it.
314 · Aug 2019
7.22.2019
Makenzie Marie Aug 2019
I’ll wait forever
He said
I’ve never known a love like this.
Makenzie Marie Mar 2019
You can love someone with your whole being.
But if they don’t bring you peace
Or offer the most important things
You’ll be left longing.

But Hold to your hope
Don’t let go
You deserve someone who makes you more
Than who you are alone
More
Of who you are at your core.

You deserve a home
Without a hole.
So if you’re missing something,
That isn’t coming,
Maybe It’s time to let go.
310 · Jul 2018
Awakening
Makenzie Marie Jul 2018
You put on quite a show
“All is well
There is hope.”

But dear do you forget that I see inside your soul?

I want to change my ways, you say
Every day
the same.

Yet you’re Holding on to the rudder to keep the ship going south
Each day getting further from the course.
Have you forgotten that the stars are urging you north?

Did your compass break,
My valiant captain?
Or did you forsake
Your commitment to your King?
What first caused your faith to shake?
I never thought that this could happen...

Do the pirates have your soul?
Did you sell it for the promises
Of beautiful women and gold?

Was I kidnapped
Is this a Dream
Or is the life I thought I had
Just not as glittering as it seemed
This is the first poem I wrote about him, that points to me noticing that I was in an unhealthy relationship, or that things were genuinely not ok.
I wrote it In December of 2017. I don’t know the exact date, because I edited it this morning and I forgot to catch the date.
308 · Dec 2018
Thanks for leaving
304 · Jun 2019
Clarity
Makenzie Marie Jun 2019
Oh
This is what love is.

It is not what it once was
To me
I was wrong entirely.

This is love, complete.

Thank you for showing me.
Makenzie Marie May 2015
I am that girl. The strong girl. The conqueror. The positive one. I am the one who surprises everyone. The outgoing, social one. The happy one
And thanks to those people, that is also who I want to be.
But this girl is also the girl who constantly dissappoints herself. She is the one who loves and forgives everyone without second thought, but struggles to love and forgive herself. The weak, fragile, and afraid one. The one who sees how bad things could really get. The one who realizes that the “rock bottom” that she hit in the past was just a lucky ledge, caught on the way into the dark abyss. She, the terrified little girl, with monsters in her mind, She sees that it gets darker, and is constantly praying that the sun in her life won’t set. But she’s also one who loves the pitch black silence of middle of the night because it’s nice knowing that the world she’s putting on a front for is asleep and unaware.
She is the one who has struggled and suffered. She is the one who always will. But she is the fighter, not the quitter. She, herself, is victory.

There is so much that nobody knows.
There is so much more to me.
Makenzie Marie Feb 2019
In your arms I find my home
And a warmth I’ve never known
No cruelty
No harsh words
No excuses from my mouth
No worrying what others heard.
No guilting me for doing nothing wrong
Only support
Only lifting me
Only love
Only hope
Only trust
Only never giving up.
Only this moment
Only, these moments, forever.
295 · Mar 2019
I believe in who you are.
Makenzie Marie Mar 2019
No matter what’s in store
Never stop becoming
Who you are at your core.
295 · Mar 2015
happy places
Makenzie Marie Mar 2015
I noticed today
that things have changed
Things don't look so dreary, babe.
The sun is shining
so much brighter, darling.
My smile
is actually coming from inside
me
and it's reaching my eyes,
really.
It's plain to see
in the way I choose to view
my life.
It's nice.
Want to come with me
On this journey?
Say yes,
I'd be happy.
292 · Nov 2014
I forgot about the hole
Makenzie Marie Nov 2014
I'm falling
again.
Into a deep
dark
hole.
And I don't know
if I want to crawl out
Again
Or let myself fall
while it gets
deeper
and darker.
Until I can't see a thing.
Makenzie Marie Feb 2019
In your arms I find home
And in your skin I wish I could burrow.
In your chest hair I weave my fingers
In your legs I tangle mine.
And when you leave, the feeling lingers
And the warmth left by you
Is like the moment my skin feels the sunshine.
290 · Oct 2019
I chose you carefully.
Makenzie Marie Oct 2019
I didn’t fall in love with you.
I was falling in love with myself again, and you supported me as I patched these broken things.
And you loved me, and reminded me that I am worthy. You were the first to treat me the way I was deserving.
But I held you at bay, consistently afraid. Even when I began to let you in I dug my heels in, resisting change.
Until I started breathing and began releasing. I stopped white knuckling, and resisting.
And, remember. I didn’t fall. I made the choice to risk it all.  
I leapt over the cliff, where my earth cracked and crumbled to bits by the last. And I chose to love you even after all of that.
I choose to love you every day, getting know you as the seasons change. And through it all I plan to stay.
288 · Mar 2019
Keep growing, always
Makenzie Marie Mar 2019
Are you sure
You want to keep me?

I nod my head,
Happily.

I want to keep
Who you’re becoming.

You are the one
I’ll never stop loving.
284 · Nov 2014
I think of you
Makenzie Marie Nov 2014
The thought of you.
it kills me.
it always has.
I wonder if it always will

The thought of you
used to make me soar
with butterflies, I’d take off
And In my heart I’d be with you.

The thought of you would **** me
And I wish I could fold a map
and be closer to you.
if only.

The thought of you kills me.
you didn’t leave.
you didn’t stay.
we’re inbetween.

and I don't know
I'm just alone.
I think.
Makenzie Marie Sep 2019
‪I have never felt the kind of love I have with You in my life. I am so blissfully happy every single day I get to see you.‬
‪After all of the hell, somehow I found you. And that cliche that it seems like I was looking for exactly you my whole life, makes sense.
After all of it, somehow, by some stroke of luck or by some divine plan, I found myself here. By some miracle, I found you.
281 · Sep 2019
Remember
Makenzie Marie Sep 2019
you made it through yesterday and the day before that and the day before that. You’re doing better than you think. Keep holding on.
275 · Jan 2019
I’m sorry for something.
Makenzie Marie Jan 2019
I try to find the words
But not even you could
As we sat in silence
Sighing. Realizing
We don’t have it down to a science.
Somethings wrong
That we should be able to fix
But we can’t find it
Because you don’t know what it is.
Makenzie Marie May 2015
When I fall, I fall hard.
And each time I only shatter my heart.

stupid girl.
268 · Nov 2018
I wonder how you see me
Makenzie Marie Nov 2018
I wonder if you see me as fragile or strong. I wonder if you think that I’ll break your arms. are you careful with my heart , are you afraid that I will fall apart?

Or I wonder if you know that I am strong, despite the fact that I have been wronged? Do you know that I have strength  despite the fact we both know I can break.

I wonder what you know.
Makenzie Marie Nov 2018
I might love you
But won’t tell you
Because recovery
Is still coming
Along
But I love being with you
Dancing to my favorite songs.
I am falling in love with you
And I know you love me too
Please don’t go
268 · Jan 2019
In Your Arms.
Makenzie Marie Jan 2019
Keep me
Please
And never release.
267 · Mar 2019
On a smooth sea
Makenzie Marie Mar 2019
We were sailing to eternity
When you turn to tell me
There’s a hole in the hull...
(“I didn’t mean to, honestly,”
You plead).
our ship is flooding quickly
And the reel is struggling
To maintain stability.

S.O.S.
Save me
From this feeling,
I’m drowning.
266 · Nov 2014
Untitled
Makenzie Marie Nov 2014
How is it
that I
the one who used to lift you up
has fallen weak
and under your spell
And now today
I’m mystified
I’m lost
both without you
and in you,
in your eyes,
in all the thoughts of you
they consume my mind
like the scent
of a sweet perfume
fills a room,
and like a plague
consumes a country.
spinning in my mind
everything I want
so sweet
and It’s killing me.
But like a child’s game
I’m still happy
as it all occurs.
257 · Dec 2018
My heart feels full
Makenzie Marie Dec 2018
I whispered
“I love you”
And he smiled,
(The kind of smile
That drives me
To drive miles and miles
Just to see.
The kind of smile
That could drive me wild)
“I love you too”
256 · Dec 2018
Guilty
Makenzie Marie Dec 2018
I have never regretted something so much as the moment I realized I betrayed your trust.
255 · May 2015
Violent Silence
Makenzie Marie May 2015
The words to ask for help are so closely within my reach
And I'm silently begging
"Please
save me
from me."
Because I can't even start
to explain
this pain
That is stabbing yourself in the heart.
251 · Mar 2019
Untitled
Makenzie Marie Mar 2019
It’s hard to admit
I’m this in love with you.
Under the surface, fearing
It’s too good to be true.
And you are so good
How could I not be?
And when I consider it
It’s easy to admit...
How I love you.
248 · May 2019
Fear cannot control you
Makenzie Marie May 2019
Trust yourself and let yourself be afraid. Two emotions and conflicting ideas can exist in one mind and one soul at the same time. Come together with yourself and accept it. And then, take the step.
Makenzie Marie Mar 2019
You treat me better
Than I’ve ever known
But just yesterday
A new seed was sewn
Your personal fears,
They became my own.
241 · Nov 2018
Don’t Break.
Makenzie Marie Nov 2018
My heart is in such a fragile place.
I don’t realize until it suddenly starts to ache.
232 · Aug 2019
Breathe...
Makenzie Marie Aug 2019
Because nobody is expecting you to be perfect today. All anybody wants from you is that you try to be better tomorrow.
231 · Nov 2018
I am cold
Makenzie Marie Nov 2018
I ask if I’m hurting you
And you don’t know

But I do
I am hurting myself
Stabbing pains in my chest
And a tingle in my hands.
But as it stands,
The thought of the glass shards
Left in my heart
Ripping open your soft soul
And leaving it exposed to the cold
All but freezes me though.
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