#vanish
I keep my eyes on my shoes—
their scuffed, bright-dull leather—
as if the ground beneath them
were already forgetting my weight.
Get a grip, I tell myself,
A thumb worries the frayed edge of my sleeve
into a neat-messy spiral.
Every thread I hide
feels like another thread lost.
Fix it properly, I mutter inside.
The spoon circles my cold-warm tea,
each clink loud in the dim kitchen.
I watch the liquid still itself
as if it were learning
the art of disappearance too.
Just drink it, I scold.
Another thin layer
seems to peel from my shadow.
By nightfall, I can feel it:
the faintest hollowing,
the sense I’m fading around the borders—
like steam losing shape
as it lifts from a cup.
I stand in the doorway,
the room soft-blurred around me,
and wonder how many scolds
a person can survive
before they slip clean out of themselves.
And for the first time,
I think: careful—
keep this up,
and you’ll vanish
from your own life
before anyone notices.
Nov 12, 2025
Nov 12, 2025 at 9:52 PM UTC
She was like her cat once
The one whose color I never knew,
Whose eyes, perhaps, were mirrors
Of the same sad blue she carried too.
She told me once, in a trembling voice,
Of how she loved that little soul
How her heart found refuge in fur and purr,
How love became her daily role.
She gave it all her warmth, her time,
Her laughter, tears, her quiet rhyme.
The cat became her silent friend,
Her secret, her beginning, end.
And then
It vanished.
Like a sigh dissolving into the sky,
Leaving a hollow she could not fill,
A wound that never learned to cry.
And now, she too is gone
Vanished, without a word,
Like the ghost of her own sorrow,
Like the echo of a bird.
I’ve searched the streets,
The nights, the dreams,
Through whispered prayers
And silent screams.
By day I see her everywhere,
By night she turns to mist.
Her name burns softly on my lips
A pain the stars insist.
If only she could tell me once,
“I’m fine, I’m good, I’m okay,”
Then I could close my eyes and sleep,
And rest this heart for a single day.
But the world stays quiet
Only memories stir.
And I realize, with trembling breath,
Her story with the cat
Was mine with her.
Nov 2, 2025
Nov 2, 2025 at 8:21 AM UTC
4AM-
a boy runs across
the four-lane roadway,
eyes like rare stones,
face burlap-creased dust,
jean shorts, a dolphin backpack
meant for someone smaller.
I track in my car,
take the exit that curves
around an abandoned encampment.
I find cement steps,
but the boy is gone.
Only smoke remains:
a hooded figure curled
in a doorway of a derelict building,
an empty tent split by knife.
The world recedes,
layered, unbroken.
another vision settling
into the mind,
a thick silence I fold
into the others.
Sep 4, 2025
Sep 4, 2025 at 11:09 AM 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 didn't leave fast.
I walked a millimeter at a time.
I left you not at once.
I waited. I didn't move. I paused in my rhyme.
I vanished in drops.
I took myself from you little by little.
I didn't even notice that
I pulled away from you in whole, up to tittle.
Apr 27, 2025
Apr 27, 2025 at 4:34 PM UTC
one day
i might just disappear
its crystal, transparent, clear
nothing lasts forever here
seasons change like a light switch
days fleeting, s p r e a d i n g out their wings
i wont answer my telephone for weeks
i'm scared to talk to people
vulnerability makes me weak.
missing people are never truly gone
they've got to be somewhere
paris, berlin, helsinki, oslo, nouakchott
san francisco, caracas, mexico city
dead, deep in the ground
alive, mentally sound
fossilising.
one day, i might be free
every day is a dream when
nothing feels quite real
Apr 22, 2025
Apr 22, 2025 at 11:54 AM UTC
I didn't leave fast,
Just bit by bit.
I didn't leave all at once.
I stood and I waited.
I vanished not quick.
Just drop by drop.
I vanished as a fog,
Till I determined to stop.
I couldn't stay more.
I had to leave quick.
We had to break up.
We both were like sick
Feb 13, 2025
Feb 13, 2025 at 4:12 PM UTC
The silence is deafening.
How many days has it been?
I can almost make out the faint calls,
Of someone in the distance.
But just as quickly as they appear,
They vanish without a trace.
So, I sit against the wall,
Hugging my knees to my chest.
Scratches on the rough concrete behind me
Marking the depth of my agony
How long will I rot in this cage,
Before someone notices that I am missing?
Feb 13, 2025
Feb 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM UTC
I've counted the days in whispers,
measuring the silence between us like broken glass.
You linger like the petrichor after the rain,
a reminder of something that should've been washed away.
I've traced your name in dust,
the even consonants and odd vowels.
hoping the wind would carry it,
and let it vanish the way we did.
I look for you in crowded rooms,
like a dream I never wished to wake from.
but I just find you in my thoughts,
you come back too often, too close.
so if you're not mine to keep,
may God keep you away from me.
Sep 14, 2024
Sep 14, 2024 at 7:02 PM UTC
can you really vanish in this day and age
ene where social media haunts and stalks you
purchases on credit cards are tracking your buying habits
cameras are located on virtually every street corner
your phone a geo locator of your every move
"make my day, try to vanish"
Andreas Simic©
Apr 27, 2022
Apr 27, 2022 at 5:10 AM UTC
I walk along a trapeze,
palms sweaty, legs shaking,
refusing to fall either way.
to go left is to fall into a fire
for a life which burns my bones.
the people will smile upon me,
oblivious to the ash surrounding them.
to go right is to fall into soft trees.
the leaves caress my skin,
but the people vanish like smoke,
and I fall to the ground.
the exact middle is survival
until I reach the other side.
Apr 2, 2021
Apr 2, 2021 at 11:32 PM UTC
I would like to slip softly, kindly, into the abyss..
That sweet nothingness, which cradles all in darkness.
I wish to become part of it,
Letting that cold emptiness entwine itself, into my thoughts, smothering them into decay.
I seek to see no trace left, of this mortality I hold.
To let it drift away on oceans of black, eventually sinking sweetly beneath the tectonic plates.
Erased.
Oct 23, 2020
Oct 23, 2020 at 5:36 PM UTC
They said; nothing last more than three days..
And i happily replied;
"Some names and some beautiful memories are unforgettable"
Oct 9, 2020
Oct 9, 2020 at 11:12 AM UTC
Even If i tied
The strongest chains
To everyone I have ever loved
Everyone who I have let in and told them "you belong here"
Eventually the chains would break
And I would lose them
We aren't meant to be kept
We are meant to love, and be loved
And then, vanish.
Sep 18, 2020
Sep 18, 2020 at 11:32 PM UTC
Moments of peace are fleeting;
just as dew will vanish at dawn.
Smile and savor the seconds
'cause before you know it they're gone.
Aug 30, 2020
Aug 30, 2020 at 9:04 PM UTC
The clouds may obscure,
But cannot vanish,
The Sun above
.
Aug 8, 2020
Aug 8, 2020 at 1:17 PM UTC
Emptiness prevailing all over us
Like a giant raven.
With Black big wings, hovering over the nation.
Then I see up at the sky,
I wish clouds to give a loud cry.
With all those tears falling,
They Make raven vanish and take back darkness and all in.
Jul 28, 2020
Jul 28, 2020 at 3:54 AM UTC
Drifted off into the space
for I was
adamant about my perception.
People abhorred
my placid nature
for my impressions created
a ripple effect in continuous motion.
Stray thoughts I possessed
something awoken yet under-acknowledged
the unseen beauty vanished into the deepest oceans.
Jun 22, 2020
Jun 22, 2020 at 11:00 AM UTC
Since you left me, I can feel it better
Than when you were here.
Every sight of you.
Every smile on your lips.
Every touch when we were lone.
Every time you wanted to cuddle.
Every moment with you was special.
Every place you took me to,
Will be my place on Earth.
Every smell of your perfume.
That makes me vanish.
Feb 22, 2020
Feb 22, 2020 at 11:41 AM UTC
See you in the forest;
We’ll meet there at one.
We can walk along the path
To escape the whole world’s wrath.
See you in the forest;
If you dare to come.
The world can be a pretty place
But can vanish you without a trace.
Nov 8, 2019
Nov 8, 2019 at 1:34 AM UTC
my trust is like waves of the ocean.
they meet the sand at the shore,
then run away faster than ever.
if the waves are too strong,
will the sand vanish...
or will it be pulled by the waves?
Oct 24, 2019
Oct 24, 2019 at 11:18 PM UTC
Amazing and brilliant
Her sight is sharp and is interacted
My deeper heart calling, "I surrounded"
Her talk is low but is understood
Her hair as the waves once up other downward
She walked as the dear coming to hunt
Not is hunted by she will hunt
All are amused and surely asked
Who is that smart, we must engaged
Get fiancé act or marriage at fast
The crowds get in struggle that will begin
But she goes and evaporates as the vanish
That is the end and the finish
Aug 20, 2019
Aug 20, 2019 at 4:11 AM UTC