#dissolve
i keep thinking about the residue of voices
not haunting not spectral not cinematic
just the way a chair remembers weight
the way a shirt holds the faint outline of sweat
there are fingerprints on the glass i never cleaned
they overlap like conversations cut short
like someone trying to explain something
and leaving halfway through
i walk past the mirror and see not myself
but the accumulation of gestures
every shrug every tilt of the head
every refusal to meet the eyes of another
the silence is not silence
it is layered with coughs
with the scrape of forks against plates
with the sound of shoes dragged across tile
all of it still here
compressed into the air like dust
i try to breathe and it feels crowded
as if the lungs are not mine alone
as if each inhale carries
a fragment of someone else’s unfinished sentence
i do not call them ghosts
because that word is too easy
too rehearsed
instead i call them leftovers
the unclaimed fragments of presence
that refuse to dissolve
and when i close my eyes
i do not see faces
i see the shape of absence
folding itself into corners
waiting for me to notice
Dec 18, 2025
Dec 18, 2025 at 11:13 PM UTC
I so want to get lost at all,
That no one would find my way.
Just vanish, dissolve, disappear,
That even my waft would fade away.
I'm ready to drop off the radar,
Like a loan garden, without a trace.
So that only a withered echo
Of my existence will reach ears.
The echo will fade, the memory'll cancel
And all will sink into a life sand.
But if I suddenly fail, if I couldn't,
I beg you, don't find me, at no hand.
Jul 17, 2025
Jul 17, 2025 at 5:25 PM UTC
i feel like we’re all alone
i feel like i could dissolve
May 9, 2020
May 9, 2020 at 8:54 PM UTC
Lozenge
by Michael R. Burch
When I was closest to love, it did not seem
real at all, but a thing of such tenuous sweetness
it might dissolve in my mouth
like a lozenge of sugar.
When I held you in my arms, I did not feel
our lack of completeness,
knowing how easy it was
for us to cling to each other.
And there were nights when the clouds
sped across the moon’s face,
exposing such rarified brightness
we did not witness
so much as embrace
love’s human appearance.
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Apr 8, 2020
Apr 8, 2020 at 12:34 AM UTC
I’m overflowing
Radiating high vibrations
My body cannot contain it
My hands are shaking
So I run, give them to the earth beneath my feet
and she drinks them
and I hope they dissolve into what you need
and I hope she returns it to you, with no trace of where it came from
Because all I need is to give
and it doesn’t matter what form that takes
As long as it makes its way back to you
Sep 7, 2019
Sep 7, 2019 at 7:49 PM UTC
Pictures fade from wondering minds
Left to what is a distant memory
Once a happy moment now blurred
With the passing of time
I want to remember
The feeling of those days
Now dissolving into nothing
Just as images on a screen
Aug 6, 2019
Aug 6, 2019 at 1:38 AM UTC
i want to
dissolve
into my sheets
let my body fall
apart in flakey
pieces like
pastry dough
to float away
in sleep where
life can’t hurt me
to let my skin
peel off and
crumble into
my bed
let the blankets
creep up over me
like myrtle
overtaking a yard
i want
to dissolve
drift back in time
to when the weight
on my back could
be lifted by coming
home and taking
off the backpack
want to
dissolve
so that the sum
total of who i am
isn’t even
recognizable
just a formless
soft and hazy
quietly breathing
mound of nothingness
i don’t want
to be here
i want to be
in bed
a bed where i
don’t have to get
up in the morning
don’t have to make
myself move from
just a bed where
i can sleep
and sleep
and
sleep
let me
dissolve
May 11, 2019
May 11, 2019 at 11:29 PM UTC
i'm happy because i know
one day my body will dissolve into its atoms
and that's when i will reach
infinity
May 7, 2019
May 7, 2019 at 1:31 PM UTC
A slender white cloud,
tells wind its tale, dissolves!
The sky's smile vanishes.
Apr 6, 2019
Apr 6, 2019 at 2:04 AM UTC
Sleeping in a silent forest
night sky come and swallow me whole
I promise I won't protest
These stars may fill my tired soul
And these trees, oh, how I love thee
Lush and green, dark and eerie
This is where I long to be
Here is where I'd never be weary
I put my life onto the earth
Dig myself a hole for a bed
This is where lies all lifes worth
Here everything is, I miss nothing I haven't had
Roots may pervade me, leafs shall cover
And in my stead another will grow
I will dissolve in the arms of my last lover
And of all misfortune it will never speak nor will it show
On new branches my soul will hang
until another
Aug 24, 2018
Aug 24, 2018 at 7:13 AM UTC
isn’t it strange
you loved a human so fiercely you dissolved into him.
even stranger
you wouldn’t change a thing.
Aug 1, 2018
Aug 1, 2018 at 10:10 PM UTC
Make sense of me
Unwind me
Define me
Don't decline me
See through
Make due
Find me
Don't bind me
Shake me
Don't fake for me
Feel me
Don't kneel for me
Make sure
Take me pure
Don't hesitate
I won't separate
I've come to evolve
Don't let me dissolve
Jun 23, 2018
Jun 23, 2018 at 6:31 PM UTC
I pick up my pen again
I want these words to be everything
love letters
apologizes
confessions, daydreams
plans? Or roadmaps, new
contracts, to-do lists, like
"stop falling down," or
"try harder this time". I turn
you over but you don't give me what I'm looking for, I'm looking
for a place to dissolve this poison
I'm searching in the dark for halos that don't exist
I'm counting up nights of lost sleep,
calculating the probability of
our intertwined fingers as
remedies melt
off your tongue and run over
cracks in the pavement, oozing
sticky shower thoughts into our heads, like how
did we end up here?,& how
does the world end every night but go
on spinning the next morning?
I want this to be everything, the cure
our futures, soft plans,
collections of stitched together questions like how long
does forever taste on your breath
in the aftermath of all the anxiety you tend
to consume?
I want to pull the drapes on this thing and leave it to breathe in the
dark, leave it under
covers so these ailments don't seep
around my doorframe and pull
what is half-born into the light, let it be
let it live
let it cave in on itself and slowly
rebuild.
Chances come in
handfuls,
let the sun forget to practice her
old game of never
letting anyone rest; my fingers are warm & numb now and they remind me a little of
how you look when you're half asleep
they remind me
why this is fragile, why this is broken
why this can never
last and I'm sitting
in the passenger seat wondering
how the soft things stretch out their wings in
my lungs without
killing me, but they're
leaving their marks now, clawing
up my throat;
I close my eyes and give
them to the open air.
You don't know all of this; your eyelids
are heavy and you're keeping track
of who I am in little
notepads & reminders,
keeping track
of the way we move and how likely
we are to remember this moment in 5 years,
because right now you want
to capture it and tame it like a living thing.
We are becoming dust
molecules, we are
burning, we are becoming
quiet we don't leave footprints
we don't leave traces
we are heading toward the end of the world with our hands
tucked into our pockets, we are headed
toward the end of the world dissolving each others names on our tongues like sugar, we are headed
toward the end of the world and when we get there,
it starts again.
Jun 11, 2018
Jun 11, 2018 at 5:34 PM UTC
There is a soft tune that
moves beneath your fingers
as they move over the pages
and words and worlds
that you will never see.
All the words of hope
that I whisper
to the you
who exists within these barriers
of skin, bones and sorrow.
I fear these words will be like the music
that doesn’t stop but fades,
dissolving into time and distance.
Like that music
it will pass from me to you,
from you to nothingness.
Apr 9, 2018
Apr 9, 2018 at 4:43 AM UTC
There is a soft tune that
moves beneath your fingers
as they move over the pages
and words and worlds
that you will never see.
All the words of hope
that I whisper
to the you
who exists within these barriers
of skin, bones and sorrow.
I fear these words will be like the music
that doesn’t stop but fades,
dissolving into time and distance.
Like that music
it will pass from me to you,
from you to nothingness.
Mar 9, 2018
Mar 9, 2018 at 2:47 AM UTC
***Do not resolve,
try not to absolve,
Wait hopefully
and let itself dissolve....***
Feb 25, 2018
Feb 25, 2018 at 10:35 PM UTC
***The darkness dissolves
Another night absolves
Let that clear your slate
May be not so immaculate
Clean enough for coming day
To write on it in an all new way!***
Jan 19, 2018
Jan 19, 2018 at 3:16 AM UTC
Gently I woke up in an ethereal hour,
as the permeating scent of a wild flower,
after roaming many many lives as insects,birds
animals wild in the forests and sea creatures
As the story went on, chapters changed
I stumbled and fell in to her curious eye
with out knowing who she was or why
all I remember was her radiance and sigh
that lifted me,at once to a level too high
Later,after many cycles,a cloud,I realize this:
a piece of clear blue sky I need immediately
her blue eyes, to dissolve bit by bit and die.
Nov 10, 2017
Nov 10, 2017 at 7:25 AM UTC
To dissolve in my mind
Is better than to
Congeal in reality
Aug 20, 2017
Aug 20, 2017 at 9:01 PM UTC