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200 · May 2020
Always & Forever, It's You
McKenna Pickett May 2020
Would you believe me
if I said that you're my Eternity?
199 · Jul 2024
I Am Still Here
McKenna Pickett Jul 2024
I don't know where I'm headed
I don't know what the future has in store
But today I danced in my kitchen
And sang while walking down the sidewalk
And I have a sneaking suspicion
That everything will be okay
197 · Jul 2019
In The Future
McKenna Pickett Jul 2019
I hope my hands can one day hold
a empty heart and fill it with love.
196 · Jun 2019
I'm Sorry
McKenna Pickett Jun 2019
If I'm the one who taught you how to love,
does that mean
I'm the one who taught you how to fall out of it, too?
195 · Oct 2019
What's This Feeling?
McKenna Pickett Oct 2019
You make me want to get better.
And for once, I believe I can.
189 · Jan 2019
Maybe It's Just Me
McKenna Pickett Jan 2019
I can't help but feel like
a little fish
in an enormous ocean
whenever I see you.

I've never felt so alone.
188 · Oct 2019
When Did I Start Falling?
McKenna Pickett Oct 2019
And just like that, I began looking for you everywhere I went.
187 · Aug 2022
Could it be?
McKenna Pickett Aug 2022
You laughed at the absurdity of my story, but there was something in that sound that felt like the beginning of something.
185 · Aug 2023
Nowhere
McKenna Pickett Aug 2023
In another universe

We're still here

My head is on your chest

I can hear your heartbeat

We're still here
185 · May 2019
They Live On
McKenna Pickett May 2019
No one is truly gone
if you still carry them
with you in your
heart.
185 · Apr 2019
I Love You
McKenna Pickett Apr 2019
I knew I loved you
when the first thought
I had when I saw you
was that I was finally
home.
184 · Jun 2019
Art
McKenna Pickett Jun 2019
Art
He looks at you as if
you were an art piece.
Beautiful,
appreciated,
unique.
I wish you could see yourself
like that too.
184 · Oct 2022
I'd Like To Hold Your Hand
McKenna Pickett Oct 2022
I wish I could tell you how I feel,
but all I can do is stare at this blinking cursor
and think the words instead.
184 · Jul 2018
Ink
McKenna Pickett Jul 2018
Ink
I sit here
with a blank sheet of paper,
ready to tattoo it with the words of my heart.
178 · Dec 2023
Merry Christmas
McKenna Pickett Dec 2023
I hope you get everything you wanted
And I hope you play in the snow

I hope the fireplace is warm
and the lights twinkle and glow

I hope you find comfort
and I hope you find your way

I hope that you'll remember me
and hope that I'm okay
178 · Oct 2019
I Want To Teach You How
McKenna Pickett Oct 2019
I've found that the most beautiful thing we can learn
is to love who we are, not who we want to be.
177 · May 2023
Against The Odds
McKenna Pickett May 2023
I wish I could engrave every moment I spend with you
into every part of me

I want to leave our mark upon the world and
if we ever were to cease

I'd shake my fist at the sky and shout

"We were here!"
"Do you hear me!"
"We were here!"
177 · Aug 2023
I Don't Know How To Say It
McKenna Pickett Aug 2023
Every now and then
I find myself back in your arms

We're laying on your bed
and there's a video playing on the tv

Every now and then I am yours again
if only for a moment

But you are not here anymore
we will not share any more of those moments

Every now and then I miss them
I miss you
176 · Oct 2017
Belong
McKenna Pickett Oct 2017
I have traveled far and wide,
and yet I still don't feel
Like
        I
          Belong.
174 · Jul 2023
"I Wish You The Best"
McKenna Pickett Jul 2023
I hope you know
I'm rooting for you.

You may not be in my life anymore
But I hope all your dreams we talked about
come true.

I hope you make it wherever you want to go
Even if I'm not beside you there.
172 · May 2023
Untitled
McKenna Pickett May 2023
I don't know how I could've lived a whole life before meeting you
172 · Mar 2018
Colors
McKenna Pickett Mar 2018
Scarlet sun dancing on the horizon,
Amber leaves fluttering to the ground,
Golden rays shining through windows,
Lime carpets of grass, wet with morning dew,
Aqua skies hovering ever so high,
Violet flowers waving in the wind.
170 · Sep 2023
Untitled
McKenna Pickett Sep 2023
I have never been one for romance
I never really know what to do
but I long for the chance
to make an advance
and dance to silence with you.

I'm sure at first it'd be funny
we'd look at each other and laugh
we'd swing and we'd sway
we'd dance every way
and cherish the love that we have.

For the silence we hear
Is not the absence of words
But rather things we need not say.
We both already know
How our hearts have been connected
From the very start up til today.

So I may not be a love song
But I'll show you in every way that I know
Til the day that we're gone
You'll know you belong
Like the flowers that bloom in the meadow.
170 · Jun 2023
Untitled
McKenna Pickett Jun 2023
"Why do you always look at me like that?"

"Like what?"

"Like there's nothing else that matters."

"Because there isn't, not when I'm with you."
169 · Jul 2018
Abyss
McKenna Pickett Jul 2018
Sometimes
my only          comfort
is a mind

emptied






of it's thoughts.
169 · Oct 2019
I Will Shine
McKenna Pickett Oct 2019
You were once my light,
but now I've found that I can be my own sun.
168 · May 2023
I'll Try Again Later
McKenna Pickett May 2023
To be honest I was gonna try to write a sappy love poem but all I could come up with was:

I am very happy you're here with me.
166 · Apr 2023
Untitled
McKenna Pickett Apr 2023
See,
I am made of sunrises
blotches of color painted by weary hands.

I am made of stars
picked straight from the sky by tiny fingertips
reaching for something more.

I am made of laughter and tears
and as my much too heavy shoulders shake
you'll wonder

what I am carrying after all.
166 · Mar 2019
I Think It's Time
McKenna Pickett Mar 2019
I find myself holding on
to things that didn't
put in the effort
to hold on to me.
164 · Sep 2018
Hope
McKenna Pickett Sep 2018
The best things in life are often
the things hidden behind
disbelief
and
fear.
163 · Apr 2021
You Taught Me How To Love
McKenna Pickett Apr 2021
I see now that it wasn't either of our faults.
Sometimes two people are only meant to be
in each others lives to teach a lesson.
163 · Apr 2023
We Are Here
McKenna Pickett Apr 2023
Sometimes I feel
i'd give you the world
if only you'd ask.

No star in the sky could
in their best efforts
evade my hands that stretch
as far as Eden for you.

From the beginning
until doomsday hails, forever
on and on my love will wrap us
in the warmth of home.
163 · Apr 2020
You Were My Music
McKenna Pickett Apr 2020
Some people
find comfort  in listening to music
indulging in the melodies
the words,
the feelings,
and how they warm your soul.
162 · Apr 2020
I Wanted That Future
McKenna Pickett Apr 2020
When people ask why I stayed so long,
the only thing I can think of is:
The only future I saw for myself
was one with him in it.
161 · Oct 2020
To My Soulmate
McKenna Pickett Oct 2020
I hope we can find each other in this life.
And if not, then I'll wait for you in the next.
161 · Jun 2023
To: Younger Me
McKenna Pickett Jun 2023
I know it used to be hard to find even one good thing
to talk about each day,

But I hope you know

I find myself here now
with so many moments I want to hold onto
that I pay for extra storage on my phone
and take as many photos as I can
so I can take the good times with me
and talk about them each day.

I take those photos for you,
for us,
to remember that there is always
something worth fighting for.
McKenna Pickett Dec 2018
I don't know why I run after people
who will never run after me.
158 · Jun 2023
This Is My Confession
McKenna Pickett Jun 2023
I have never wanted to hold onto something so much before
To irrevocably give you everything I have
If only it help you realize
I have known you my whole life
In the way that you are the flowers I have loved every spring
And the stars I have always admired every night
You have always been there
Even if I didn't know it
And now that I do
I want to hold this feeling forever
If you'll let me
157 · Jul 2019
You Have To Love You First
McKenna Pickett Jul 2019
To you who feels like the world is against you,
You Deserve To Be Loved.
150 · Jun 2023
I'll Remember, I Promise
McKenna Pickett Jun 2023
You can ask anyone who knows me
I have never been the best at remembering things
I leave my thoughts scattered across the coffee table in my head
But when it comes to you my dear
You are just too important to forget
149 · Apr 2023
I'm Simply Passing Time
McKenna Pickett Apr 2023
I have never been good
at being someone people would choose
in a crowded room.

I am the smell of rain
and the ticking of a clock.

I am a slight breeze
and a fleeting glance through a window.

I have never been good
at sticking around
long enough to know I am worth
being stuck with.
McKenna Pickett May 2023
Every time I look into your eyes,
I see a future I could stare at
forever
148 · Apr 2023
I'll Be There Soon
McKenna Pickett Apr 2023
Every now and then
I become 10 years old

I'm laying in my parents bed
melting into worn sheets and heavy blankets

I can hear my sister on the phone
she's chatting about some math test

The walls were always thin

I can hear my mother with the vacuum
and my father and brother cooking breakfast

They are toasting english muffins
and scrambling eggs

The bacon is sizzling
and the hash browns are crispy

I can smell it now as it floods my house
seeping into the hallway and into the room

The birds outside are singing
and the sunlight is golden as it carresses
my weary, aged eyes

But I am 10 right now
my shoulders have no weight to carry

And I feel as though I am one with the wind
slowly floating away from where I should be,
back towards home.
147 · Mar 2019
Nightmare
McKenna Pickett Mar 2019
If there was one sight
I wish I never saw...
It would be your back
as you walked away
from what we had.
145 · Jul 2018
Shards
McKenna Pickett Jul 2018
My heart is filled with deadly shards.
And the more I feel,
The more it hurts.
144 · Jan 2019
I Just Can't Forget
McKenna Pickett Jan 2019
I told myself
I'd forget
every moment
every laugh
that I shared
with you.

But as I
lay awake
at 3am
I find it hard
to let go of
my best
memories.
144 · Apr 2023
As We've Always Been
McKenna Pickett Apr 2023
Even though we may one day
burn out in one big blast of light
I hope those who come after
will see our love from millions of miles away
as vast, bright, and infinite.
143 · Nov 2023
Untitled
McKenna Pickett Nov 2023
There’s a certain bitterness in growing up
It’s being angry at the world for it wanting you to change
For expecting you to keep up
When you still haven’t grown into your shoes
They’re still tied with bunny ears
143 · May 2023
Open Ears
McKenna Pickett May 2023
I hope you tell your friends about me
and I hope they're as happy for you
as The Moon is for me
when she listens to my stories of you
every night.
140 · May 2023
Remember
McKenna Pickett May 2023
There is a certain solace in the rain.
Let it fall upon you and soak into your clothes
Let it seep into your flesh and bones.
Feel the chill spread across yourself.
That is the feeling of being alive
That is how you know you feel.
That is how you know you are alive.
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