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84 · Jun 2020
Window
Mitch Prax Jun 2020
Perhaps I am
just a window
for everyone to see through,
to lift me up for their own vanity
only to put me down when
the world grows dark.
84 · Jan 24
Shooting Star
Mitch Prax Jan 24
I fell in love
with a shooting star
but forgot they are
destined not to stay.
83 · May 2020
Haiku
Mitch Prax May 2020
Why do you always
have to be so beautiful
and distant like that?

5:46 PM
6/5/20
83 · Apr 2022
Still Remain
Mitch Prax Apr 2022
Yes, it's true,
I still think of you-
how can I forget the one
who consumed my mind,
heart and soul for so long?
Years can go by,
I can move away,
I can even be reborn,
yet in my mind you still remain.
83 · Jan 2020
Diary Excerpts #12
Mitch Prax Jan 2020
Dear diary;
All of the good days are nothing
compared to the emptiness I feel
since she took her away-
or more like a piece of me away.
And now I think I am getting sick
from all of the poison she fed me
over the past year-
that's all she left.
81 · Jun 2020
Thief
Mitch Prax Jun 2020
To this day,
I'm still replaying
the memories of you and I.
You may still be able to
steal my thoughts away,
each one turning into
another piece of
poetry.
80 · Apr 26
Helpless
Mitch Prax Apr 26
Your fingers bled
from the roses you stole
from this heart.
Their thorns were helpless
against your cold
and merciless
grasp.
80 · Apr 2020
Haiku
Mitch Prax Apr 2020
I'm still a hopeless
romantic but you give me
the hope I long for

11:58 AM
17/4/20
80 · Feb 2020
Disguises
Mitch Prax Feb 2020
I am too
many tragedies
disguised as a man with
too many wounds
disguised as
memories.
80 · Jul 2021
The Last Time
Mitch Prax Jul 2021
If I had known
that was the last time
I saw you,
what would I have done differently?
Would I have memorized your smile
for all those rainy days you
wouldn't be here?
Would I have held you longer
hoping that your warmth would
stay with me for just a bit more?
Would I have kissed you one more time
so that I remember heaven
when hell comes next?
79 · Apr 2020
The Darkness
Mitch Prax Apr 2020
Once this darkness is over,
we won’t remember how we survived.
We won’t even be sure
whether the darkness is really over.
But one thing is certain-
When we climb out of the darkness,
and into the light,
we won't be the same world
that once stood.
79 · Mar 2020
Shipwreck
Mitch Prax Mar 2020
When your ship
came crashing back to shore
I knew the ocean didn’t love us
anymore.
79 · Aug 7
In Orbit
Mitch Prax Aug 7
She is in orbit
around my sun,
and I am immersed
within her
universe.
79 · Sep 22
Haiku
Mitch Prax Sep 22
I want to live with
my eyes closed so that I can
only dream of you

8:09 PM
22/9/25
77 · Mar 2020
Haiku
Mitch Prax Mar 2020
I just want to be
enough but not too much all
at once, just for you

4:40 PM
11/3/20
76 · Aug 2020
Switch & Spirit
Mitch Prax Aug 2020
People could tell how much
you lit up my spirit-
they could see it in my eyes,
they could see it in my smile.
But now that you've gone,
these eyes ain't what they used to be.
Like a switch,
I have taught myself to
light them up on command.
But deep down,
this spirit doesn't
shine so bright.
76 · Jul 2020
Ghost
Mitch Prax Jul 2020
I am just a ghost
walking with the wind
and it cuts through me
like a never-ending blizzard.
All I can do now is
gather memories
of warmer times,
of warmer eyes
of names that have long since escaped me.
When will these winter winds
whisk me away?
I don't want to feel again.
75 · Feb 2020
Haiku
Mitch Prax Feb 2020
Years later, and I
think I would still love you like
I did long ago

3:40 PM
13/2/20
75 · Jul 2020
Do you?
Mitch Prax Jul 2020
Do you love
what we were?
who we are today?
or what we could
become?
74 · Feb 2022
Scattered Stars
Mitch Prax Feb 2022
Some of us are scattered stars
without a solar system in the vast
and unforgiving cosmos.
We may not be part of a constellation
or host a planet and its life
we could sustain but
we still shine as bright
as any other star.
74 · Jul 2020
Idea of Me
Mitch Prax Jul 2020
There are few
who really know me
at all.
Sure,
some will know a few
facts about me-
they'll try to piece me together
in a way that makes sense to them.
Sometimes I believe the idea of me
that they have created
or perhaps I don't know
myself at all.
72 · Aug 7
Scattered
Mitch Prax Aug 7
Everything
we had built
over the years
just scattered
in the wind.
Our blood, sweat and tears
gone without a trace.
All for nothing.
70 · Sep 2020
Me, a Song
Mitch Prax Sep 2020
If I am a song,
you are the rhythm to my melody.
As for the lyrics,
they are written in a language
that only you could understand.
69 · Jul 2020
Haiku
Mitch Prax Jul 2020
Is it enough to
say 'I miss you' before you
walk the other way?

11:05 PM
15/7/20
69 · Mar 2020
Idea of You
Mitch Prax Mar 2020
Maybe
I was in love
with the idea of
who you could have been
more than who
you really are.
69 · Feb 2020
Haiku
Mitch Prax Feb 2020
I do not need to
be reminded of the cost
of falling for you

11:14 PM
25/2/20
68 · Apr 2020
Haiku
Mitch Prax Apr 2020
I am a single
soul yet I am split and my
heart has been splintered

11:02 PM
6/4/20
68 · Jan 2020
Red Rose
Mitch Prax Jan 2020
I still taste the gin
from her lips
and this heart
isn't slowing down.
How can I sleep when
her voice still echoes in my ear?
But when I do,
I hope I dream of her.
Tonight was not long enough.
67 · Feb 2020
Haiku
Mitch Prax Feb 2020
Just because your words
are comforting, doesn't mean
they bring peace of mind

9:47 AM
29/2/20
66 · Feb 2020
Haiku
Mitch Prax Feb 2020
Don’t ask to love me
when what you really mean is
you want to touch me

6:19 PM
27/2/20
66 · Jan 2020
Black Lungs
Mitch Prax Jan 2020
I’m not mad
and I'm not upset-
I’m just howling for the
first time in a long time
and as you can imagine,
there’s still a lot of 'you'
in my lungs.
65 · Apr 2020
Falling
Mitch Prax Apr 2020
I wasn't the
name on her tongue
when she fell in love.
At least she fell
in love at all.
65 · Apr 2020
Haiku
Mitch Prax Apr 2020
Hey, you, maybe we
could start over again and
get it right this time

5:17 PM
16/4/20
62 · Apr 2020
Flow
Mitch Prax Apr 2020
My heart remains
stuck in the same place-
immovable,
unbreakable,
but my love moves
and flows
through time.
61 · Apr 2020
Haiku
Mitch Prax Apr 2020
Sometimes the heart picks
its own poison and mine has
chosen you, my dear

1:37 PM
18/4/20
60 · Jan 2020
Haiku
Mitch Prax Jan 2020
My heart begged me to
do something dramatic and
so I set it free

7:39 AM
29/1/20
58 · Aug 2020
Haiku
Mitch Prax Aug 2020
When was the last time
someone knew you and not who
you pretend to be?

9:38 PM
3/8/20
57 · Mar 2020
Short Poems
Mitch Prax Mar 2020
Maybe my poems
are so short because
I wish to avoid the pain
of remembering
too much.
56 · May 2020
The Last Bit
Mitch Prax May 2020
You were the last
bit of good in me.
You walked away,
and never gave it back.
56 · Mar 2020
Haiku
Mitch Prax Mar 2020
Wrote you a haiku
and all I lost was a small,
small part of myself

7:23 AM
5/3/20
55 · Aug 2020
Haiku
Mitch Prax Aug 2020
The word 'love' sounds more
desirable when it is
spoken from your mouth

4:10 PM
27/8/20
53 · Jul 2020
We
Mitch Prax Jul 2020
We
I am forever
longing for the moment
where you and I
become
'we'
52 · Mar 2020
It's Not Enough
Mitch Prax Mar 2020
One soul
and one heart
is not enough to
contain all
of this
sorrow.
51 · Jul 2020
Heart on my Sleeve
Mitch Prax Jul 2020
I still hope
you find comfort
in the shirt you stole
from me.
The one I wore my
heart on my sleeve
for you.
Yeah,
I really miss
that shirt.
48 · Aug 2020
Haiku
Mitch Prax Aug 2020
Death has plagued my dreams
for quite some time now to the
point of fearing sleep

4:08 AM
21/8/20
48 · Apr 2020
Bubble Girl
Mitch Prax Apr 2020
Oh, I wish
I could turn back time
and laugh with you again.
To laugh and cry,
to hold you once again.
But now you have your bubbles
and me, nothing left at all.
Bubble girl,
I don't know how
to keep you from the winds.
Bubble girl,
may they one day carry you
back into my arms.
But for now,
goodbye,
bubble girl.
Mitch Prax Feb 2020
I’m sorry
that you can't
see her face
without seeing my face.
I hate that you ruined
all of our favorite songs-
just one note and I
am at your mercy.
But in the end,
I hope this will not destroy me,
well, me at least,
not because the ending torments me,
but because the memories don't.
No, quite the opposite.
41 · Jan 2020
Haiku
Mitch Prax Jan 2020
I have only known
how to love you and now I
don't know what to do

2:17 AM
7/1/20
40 · Feb 2020
Haiku
Mitch Prax Feb 2020
Baby, hold me close-
these cold and lonely nights will
be the death of me

10:11 PM
29/2/20

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