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349 · Mar 2019
U-Turn
Mitch Prax Mar 2019
Sometimes
it feels like
the only way forward
is a U-turn
back towards yesterday-
heading for the past.
For it is there
where my heart
doesn't want to leave.
348 · Sep 2021
I Miss You
Mitch Prax Sep 2021
Hey kid,
I am missing you
more than usual tonight.
It's cold, it's dark, and I am sitting here
watching the winter storm all alone.
It's pouring out there-
it's heavier than the night itself.
Distant thunder bellows in the distance
but it's sure to be at my doorstep soon.
As for me, I am warm-
I can thank the comfort you give me
and your joy you radiate for that.
I am missing you
more than usual.
348 · Feb 2022
Rise & Fall
Mitch Prax Feb 2022
What strange power
the sunflowers have that,
once you walk among them,
your worries just fade away.
Like the countless sunflowers that
rise and fall,
we are born carefree
until our sun sets
one last time.
348 · Jun 2019
Haiku
Mitch Prax Jun 2019
Do not forget that
you are a force of nature-
fire, ice and wind

6:03 PM
6/6/19
347 · Jul 2022
Haiku
Mitch Prax Jul 2022
You don't have to do
much to make my life smile-
I'll never forget

11:20 AM
2/7/22
347 · May 2019
A Dark Embrace
Mitch Prax May 2019
We embrace the darkness
with arms wide open because
we've nothing else to hold.
347 · Feb 2020
Diary Excerpts #15
Mitch Prax Feb 2020
Dear Diary;
Today is for the chocolate lovers
and the hopeless romantics.
This year,
I am not one of them.
346 · Apr 2021
Walls
Mitch Prax Apr 2021
How do I
reach you when
all I see are the walls
you built around
yourself?
345 · Jul 2019
Haiku
Mitch Prax Jul 2019
Mother Earth, she aches-
the more we are heating, the
more she is bleeding

10:03 PM
15/7/19
344 · Sep 2019
Haiku
Mitch Prax Sep 2019
some days the rain falls
just a little too loud for
me to hear my heart

1:36 AM
8/9/19
343 · Jan 2018
My Sun
Mitch Prax Jan 2018
I’m thinking about making another world  
to a world where my sun meets another sky.
Where your hands rest in mine
and I see your smile,
glowing as bright as my sun.
It was in this world
where I learned to adore you.
You were the light in my life,
the warmth in my soul,
the twilight every night.
the sun in my sky
343 · May 2022
Apple of my Eye
Mitch Prax May 2022
Sweet sunflower,
I watch you from afar.
Your petals wither and
all I want to do is shine light into your heart.
All alone in a bed of thorns you are-
I want to plant more like you and
nurture them as if they too were
the apple of my eye.
342 · Aug 2020
Two Years
Mitch Prax Aug 2020
Has it been
that long already?
Such a distant memory,
it almost feels like a dream-
a dream I never wanted to wake from.
I still miss you
more and more every day.
Take me to sleep,
I want to dream
again.
342 · Jun 2019
Haiku
Mitch Prax Jun 2019
And then you held me
like you'd never let me go-
I wish you hadn't

7:09 PM
30/6/19
341 · May 2019
Reinvention
Mitch Prax May 2019
These last few months,
I have been learning how to
separate myself from my past,
my mistakes,
and all the heartbreak
and mind ache
that I have endured.
It's easier said than done,
but I do believe we have
the ability to reinvent ourselves
and love others unlike the way
they used to 'love' me
340 · Oct 2019
All I want for Christmas
Mitch Prax Oct 2019
All I want for Christmas is you,
bent over the kitchen table...
with a knife in your back,
you ******* tyrant.
339 · May 2021
Dark
Mitch Prax May 2021
There's so much darkness
between us that the shadows
are afraid of the dark.
338 · Aug 2019
Haiku
Mitch Prax Aug 2019
you are the sunshine
to my storm and the cure
to all my chaos

10:04 PM
24/8/19
338 · Sep 2024
Palace
Mitch Prax Sep 2024
There is a palace
that awaits you-
where you can feel safe,
loved and cherished within its walls.
You will never have to share
it with another for it
was built only for you.
This palace is located in between
these two lungs and only you
hold the keys to its red walls.
338 · Dec 2020
Shipwreck & Storm
Mitch Prax Dec 2020
You’ve been
following me out to sea
hoping to find paradise
on my voyage
but I am nothing
but shipwreck and storm;
a tsunami leaving nothing but
chaos in its wake.
337 · Sep 2019
Haiku
Mitch Prax Sep 2019
Every time I drink
tea I think of you and that's
a beautiful thing

6:15 PM
21/9/19
337 · Dec 2019
An Open Letter to Myself
Mitch Prax Dec 2019
Dear me-
I think I can
love again,
not well,
but at least
I am trying.
337 · May 2023
Across the Sea
Mitch Prax May 2023
How easy it is to weep
at the memory of you.
I could never forget you
wherever you are in this world.
I have never felt this abandoned since you left,
it's like a piece of my heart went across the sea
never to return to this chest.
336 · Mar 2021
Love is a Drug from Hell
Mitch Prax Mar 2021
Love is a fickle
yet transcendent drug.
Beware its highs and lows
for the side effects
far outweigh
the addiction.
336 · Jul 2020
In Your Eyes
Mitch Prax Jul 2020
Your eyes were
as warm as the sun.
To this day,
you still have me
chasing the horizon,
chasing that warmth
I felt with you.
336 · Oct 2021
Roots
Mitch Prax Oct 2021
In our silence,
a love blossoms once again
in these two hearts.
True love's roots burrow deeper
than any absence that has
come between us.
334 · May 2020
Haiku
Mitch Prax May 2020
What hope did we have
of ever navigating
through all of this mist?

11:10 AM
10/5/20
333 · Mar 2019
Agony and Artistry
Mitch Prax Mar 2019
You've learnt an art
from within your heart
so when you break mine apart
the pieces fall into
an aesthetic craft.
333 · Aug 2018
The Mask
Mitch Prax Aug 2018
I'm not a good person,
I'm just a somebody that
does good things.
All of my sins can be
swept under the rug
in exchange for hollow gestures
and empty kindness for those
who do not mean me harm.
I am not a good person,
but it's easier to get away
with more when you wear the mask.
332 · Aug 2018
I Am Not a Doctor
Mitch Prax Aug 2018
I am no doctor,
but this love you are describing,
may be in your heart.
Find her, or you could die.
Or maybe this love is a poison
leaving your body.
Withdrawal *****, I know,
but then again, I'm no doctor,
I am but a stranger.
Your story has been told,
a billion times over.
Do you have a pen?
Do you have a heart?
331 · Jan 2020
The Wind Rises
Mitch Prax Jan 2020
I heard your voice
in the wind and you let me know
that you were saying goodbye.
I run for shelter,
fear of what comes next.
These nights have never felt so cold,
but all I can do is wait out
the impending storm.
331 · May 2021
Diary Excerpts #45
Mitch Prax May 2021
Dear diary;
I am constantly
finding myself being
devoured by every memory
that I
have ever had.
331 · Feb 2020
Haiku
Mitch Prax Feb 2020
There's still time to find
validation, or so I
tell myself each year.

7:52 PM
14/2/20
330 · Nov 2019
Happily Ever After
Mitch Prax Nov 2019
It is so easy to think
that you’re never going
to find someone like him-
until you find someone better.
It is so easy to think things
will never be like before
Until they are.
It is too easy to think
we’ll never get that fairy-tale love-
that happily ever after just like
they have in the movies-
until one one day we find it.
But you’re not at the end
of your story yet-
just remember that the
happily ever after is always
at the end.
329 · Jun 2019
The Echo
Mitch Prax Jun 2019
Love is a
shout into the void-
a long wait for an echo
that may or may not come
falling back to your lips.
329 · Jun 2022
Haiku
Mitch Prax Jun 2022
I may as well just
imagine you the way you
aren't here anymore

5:40 PM
13/6/22
329 · Nov 2020
Haiku
Mitch Prax Nov 2020
The goal should always
result in your happiness
or else what's the point?

4:34 PM
30/11/20
329 · Feb 2019
First Light
Mitch Prax Feb 2019
It isn't always the light
at the end of the tunnel
or a brand new
sunrise
you see at first.
No, the first light
usually comes
in the form
of a person
during dark times.
329 · Mar 2019
Nature's Law
Mitch Prax Mar 2019
Nothing blooms in nature
all year long,
so why should you
expect yourself
to do so?
328 · Apr 2018
The phoenix and the wolf
Mitch Prax Apr 2018
Have you ever
heard a tale of a phoenix
falling in love with a
wolf in sheep’s clothing?
One was rebirth
and the other was betrayal.
What good could come of
their tangled and violent embrace?
327 · Feb 2019
2:34 AM
Mitch Prax Feb 2019
Why am I so preoccupied
with distracting myself
from me?
326 · Aug 2021
Haiku
Mitch Prax Aug 2021
I once knew a man
who could read minds and with this,
the pain never ceased

7:24 AM
3/8/21
326 · Jun 2020
Muscle Memory
Mitch Prax Jun 2020
It's true,
muscle memory
is real and this heart
remembers
you.
326 · Jun 2022
Haiku
Mitch Prax Jun 2022
I want to get lost
in another country and
forget who I am

2:06 AM
23/6/22
326 · Jun 2019
Haiku
Mitch Prax Jun 2019
I try and I try
to write the perfect haiku-
as perfect as you

11:25 PM
19/6/19
325 · Jul 2021
Haiku
Mitch Prax Jul 2021
Why do you expect
life to give back what life
has taken away?

6:29 PM
12/7/21
324 · Feb 2019
Insomnia
Mitch Prax Feb 2019
I am longing for the night-
wishing for nothing but sleep
but when the night comes,
I lay in bed,
awaiting a serenity that
isn’t so imminent.
A restlessness stirs within me,
not realizing its still hours
until dawn.
323 · Mar 2019
Tbilisi
Mitch Prax Mar 2019
Tbilisi held up more
than just our broken heart.
They held our hopes and dreams,
at least until we were apart.
323 · Jun 2022
Haiku
Mitch Prax Jun 2022
It is as easy
to feel love and warmth as it
is to feel heartbreak

5:59 PM
23/6/22
323 · Oct 2022
Haiku
Mitch Prax Oct 2022
Fortunate are these
hands that get to trace your skin
from your head to toe

12:59 PM
23/10/22
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