Salt Dissolving

Salt dissolving in my mouth

Taste of you still hanging there

Like morning rain on window glass

Distorted

Your hands were maps I couldn't read

Geography of want and need

Now I'm walking through the rooms

Where we used to breathe the same air

Salt dissolving

Everything melts eventually

Ice cubes, promises, the way you said my name

Salt dissolving in the wounds we made

Found your earring in the couch

Small silver moon, forgotten

Like words we never said

Salt dissolving on my tongue

Memory tastes like this

Swimming through these empty spaces

Where your laughter used to echo

Now just salt water in my eyes

Salt dissolving

Always dissolving

What remains when everything dissolves?

The glass, the container, the shape of absence

Salt crystals forming at the edges

Where we touched

Salt dissolving

Into something else entirely

Salt dissolving

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