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413 · Jun 2021
String Theory
Mitch Prax Jun 2021
We will always
be connected through
love and a theory-
these strings shall
transcend time and space
and bind us
for eternity.
412 · Aug 2021
Haiku
Mitch Prax Aug 2021
Just keep me busy
through my days so I don't have
to feel anything

6:02 PM
14/8/21
411 · Oct 2017
Black Cat
Mitch Prax Oct 2017
There's a black cat
that follows me home
every night I feel her gaze
cut to the bone.
I walk in her shadow
I cannot escape
sometimes it's more
than I can take.
There's no use running,
she's always one step ahead
though some will say
it's all just in my head
Black cat, turn away
I'm growing tired
of this struggle
every day
411 · Jul 6
Night Owls
Mitch Prax Jul 6
One common misconception
about night owls is that it
isn't about staying up late,
not to party or to relax,
but the feeling the silence
and the darkness brings.
In this solitude we find peace of mind,
we find the atmosphere to create,
to work and to unwind.
The world is asleep and I
have never felt more alive.
410 · Oct 2019
Temporary
Mitch Prax Oct 2019
Let them leave-
it doesn't matter.
If life is temporary,
how can they be permanent?
Nothing really lasts so
strap yourself in and
enjoy the ride.
409 · Oct 2018
11:14 PM
Mitch Prax Oct 2018
Somewhere tonight
there’s a girl writing a song
between working two jobs,
ignoring the voices that
tell her to give up.
I hope she never does.
I hope her future
is a bright one.
408 · Jul 2020
Haiku
Mitch Prax Jul 2020
It's a long way to
utopia so make sure
to bring your coffin

8:37 PM
26/7/20
408 · Sep 2019
Haiku
Mitch Prax Sep 2019
I'm in need of your
love, warmth and affection to
guide me through the night

11:05 AM
7/9/19
407 · Jun 2019
Haiku
Mitch Prax Jun 2019
There are only so
many battles you can fight
so pick them wisely

11:05 PM
10/6/19
405 · Jun 14
Bottom of the Sea
Mitch Prax Jun 14
My heart sank to
the bottom of your sea
and now I wait for
it to float back
up to me.
405 · Mar 2019
Cigarettes & Valentines
Mitch Prax Mar 2019
I guess this love was never reciprocated.
Now, our words just linger and fade
like bedroom cigarette smoke.
Maybe my heart will also fade
out of my chest on my walk home.
That’d be nice.
404 · Apr 2019
Spilt Ink
Mitch Prax Apr 2019
If I just keep writing,
then maybe my poetry
will spill out and
bring you back.
404 · May 2019
2:14 AM
Mitch Prax May 2019
It’s terrifying
when you get hit
with a revelation at 2am
that you can’t picture yourself
five or ten years into the future
sharing a cosy suburban apartment
with the love of your life,
with a family to call your own.
403 · Jan 2018
Flowers of Love
Mitch Prax Jan 2018
Love is like a flower
It can be so delicate
And when you are seduced    
with its beauty and delicacy
You will want to pluck it.
But plucking, in essence,
Kills the flower
Love is different.
Love is leaving it be;
Letting it flourish
and growing with the flower.
Love is watering the flower
when it needs it.
Love is letting the flower
Live among its kind
if it desires it.
Love is appreciating,
Love is beautiful
but when one tries to control
or mold someone into an idea,
this is when love dies
402 · Mar 2018
Sparks
Mitch Prax Mar 2018
You can watch a fire
begin with a spark,
so I’ll stand by your side
until I spot a flame.
402 · Jan 2019
My Sun
Mitch Prax Jan 2019
If you left,
the sun would still shine,
but I would rather have you
and the rain any day.
400 · May 2021
Fragments of You
Mitch Prax May 2021
Fragments of you
still linger in me-
tiny pieces still embedded
in my heart, my soul
and my memories.
397 · Apr 2018
Habit of You
Mitch Prax Apr 2018
I have a compulsive habit
where I tend to cut people off
the second they get close to me.
Maybe I do this because
I’m terrified of being hurt again;
but maybe the reason isn’t important.
I tend to cut them off quickly
but allow you to stay
in the background like a radio;
On, yet no one is listening to it.
I’ll cut off anyone that reminds
me of you because maybe
if I ignore you long enough
you’ll fade away.
397 · Feb 2023
Rhyme
Mitch Prax Feb 2023
The young poet
I used to be would be sad
to learn that I do not
rhyme as much
as I used to.
397 · Mar 2019
In Your Eyes
Mitch Prax Mar 2019
I don’t fear getting lost
in your eyes,
I fear getting lost in your voice.
I see myself in those eyes
and  I see my home.
Your voice, though-
it can swallow me whole
with all your little words
and I would
never return.
396 · Jan 2018
Mirror Image
395 · Apr 2019
How Did I Get So Lucky?
Mitch Prax Apr 2019
Most of the time,
I am too afraid
and too in awe
to ask myself
how I found you.
395 · Nov 2020
Haiku
Mitch Prax Nov 2020
I am once again
torn between forgiving them
and forgetting them

6:29 PM
7/11/20
395 · May 2019
Haiku 3/5/09 10:15 PM
Mitch Prax May 2019
She treasures her cats
more than any old treasure-
more than life itself.
394 · May 2022
Untitled
Mitch Prax May 2022
Yes,
I accepted it,
but that doesn't mean
it does not make
me sad.
393 · Jan 2019
No Ending
Mitch Prax Jan 2019
You and I.
We had no ending,
not even a goodbye.
Now I am left
to wonder why.
392 · Dec 2019
Merry Christmas, Fucker.
Mitch Prax Dec 2019
I went to Hell
for Christmas eve
only to return with
something nice
to gift you for
this special
day.
392 · Jan 2018
Broken People
Mitch Prax Jan 2018
Why is it that broken people
confide in my words?
Is it because I’m broken too?
Are we shards from the same bottle?
Does it help when we fit into place?
You and I, a tragic jigsaw puzzle
Or when I put you back together?
I don’t know why it is,
All I know is that my words
bring a temporary relief
to myself and
to the broken people
391 · May 2022
The Future
Mitch Prax May 2022
Thinking about the future
makes me anxious.
Not thinking about the future
makes me anxious.
There is no middle-ground and
we are all anxious.
391 · Jun 2019
Don't Take It Personally
Mitch Prax Jun 2019
It’s important
not to take these things personally.
Sometimes people hate you
through no fault of your own.
And sometimes people push you away
just because they’re afraid of what
will happen if you get too close.
And sometimes people leave
because they came to realize
that you weren't right for them
before you could realize that
they weren't right for you.
And that's okay because
not everybody can
love you.
390 · May 2019
Haiku 22/5/19 11:04 PM
Mitch Prax May 2019
Twenty-seven years
of unbridled poetry
running through my veins.
390 · Apr 2019
The Snake
Mitch Prax Apr 2019
She slithers in
underneath my door
in the dead of night.
I let my guard down
and she slides up my bed,
underneath the covers
and curls around my spine.
She whispers sweet terrors
and I find myself awake
and fighting this anxiety
that has me in her grip.
390 · Nov 2019
Midnight Blues
Mitch Prax Nov 2019
"It’s good to be alone,"
I say to myself
most nights.
But there comes
a point where
the cold gives in to
the warmth,
and god,
does the
loneliness hit.
388 · May 2020
A Part of Me
Mitch Prax May 2020
There's still
a part of me in London-
I left it in my dingy block
on Deptford High Street.
Another part of me still
remains in St James Park,
somewhere in the flowers
and another somewhere in
the markets of Camden Town.
I don't think it'll ever leave.
388 · May 2018
Just Another Face
Mitch Prax May 2018
I rehearse the words
I want to say to you
over and over again in my head.
Tonight I should be sleeping,
but I have to think this through;
I have to get this right.
I’m pretty certain I’m just another
face to you, or, that’s what I’m becoming.
But you were never just another face.
And you will never be just another face.
Nor will you become a distant memory;
I will always carry you close to my heart
even though I’m pretty sure
I never got close to yours.
387 · Nov 2019
In Good Company
Mitch Prax Nov 2019
You know,
I don’t blame you.
And how could I blame you,
when it was me?
I get it, I'm not the easiest
person to be around,
let alone love.  
I admire you for trying-
it must have been exhausting.
But that's okay,
I don't mind being alone-
maybe I'm the only company
that can tolerate me.
387 · Oct 2020
Like Lavender
Mitch Prax Oct 2020
Like lavender,
this world is a brighter place
because of your beauty
and your grace.
Like lavender,
there is something about you,
so wild yet so soft,
that gets me through.
Like lavender,
you have a scent so divine,
and I have been blessed
to call it mine.
386 · Sep 2018
Stars That You Are
Mitch Prax Sep 2018
Yes,
I am selfish;
I want to see you every night
Until the darkness is no more.
My nights can never be too full
of the stars that you are.
386 · Mar 2022
Untitled
Mitch Prax Mar 2022
It's getting better,
it's getting bad,
it's getting better,
it's getting bad,
it's getting better,
it's getting bad,
it's getting better,
it's getting bad.
385 · Jan 2021
Haiku
Mitch Prax Jan 2021
For many people,
what is right and wrong depends
on who it crushes

8:31 PM
13/1/21
384 · Dec 2020
Haiku
Mitch Prax Dec 2020
Even if this stops
being love I will always
keep on loving you

10:17 PM
5/12/20
383 · Jan 2018
Key To My Heart
Mitch Prax Jan 2018
I’m sorry that you
have to carry around
that key to my heart,
that **** rusted thing,
not knowing what it unlocked.
I’m sorry that we may never meet
or that you may never unshackle me
from these heavy chains.
This is not your burden,
only mine to carry.
So treat this key
As a mystery, as a treasure
from me to you.
Let it hang around your neck
Or under your pillow
and remember that someday
somewhere is waiting to be unlocked;
a treasure for the ages.
Remember not to worry;
this story doesn’t need
a happy ending
or an ending at all.
382 · Nov 2019
Haiku
Mitch Prax Nov 2019
My hand never found
a better place to call home
than when it held yours

8:55 PM
28/11/19
380 · Mar 2019
Go ahead and fly, kid
Mitch Prax Mar 2019
It stormed yesterday.
Today the sky is clear
and now they're yours
to conquer.
So remember, whenever struggle
and pain are present,
it will always pass-
the oceans are yours to surpass.
So fill your heart,
Purge your mind,
Spread your wings,
Go ahead and fly, kid,
The world is yours.
379 · Jul 2019
Still Too Early
Mitch Prax Jul 2019
It is far too early
to tel if I'll survive you.
You have already made
a dent on my heart
and I’m already weak-kneed
at the thought of saying goodbye.
379 · Dec 2020
Reasons
Mitch Prax Dec 2020
If every person
comes into my life
for a reason then
Does every person
leave my life
for a reason?
Mitch Prax Jun 2018
Sure, I am just a passenger
in this story of your life
but each ride exhilarates me;
it rocks me to my core
and leaves me wanting more.
I always leave with a smile,
like we drove to the top of the world;
the perfect stop to drop me off
and let loose the butterflies
I collected along the way.
378 · Nov 2019
2:34 AM
Mitch Prax Nov 2019
All of her words
were as empty as her
bottle of gin.
All he could do
was love her.
377 · Feb 2019
Temporary Angels
Mitch Prax Feb 2019
Angels come and go
with pain and love
and without warning.
If you should be so lucky
As to meet an angel in this world
treasure them-
for there’s no telling when
their halo will lift or
their wings will take flight.
So cherish them-
but keep in mind
they are not forever
and that one day they may become
a stranger once again.
377 · Nov 2020
2020
Mitch Prax Nov 2020
It was
a bad year for all,
but 2020 is
merely an illusion.
The arrow of time will
forever stretch in the direction
of chaos and
misery.
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