Rearview

Streetlights blinking, half alive

You disappeared between the lines

No reasons left, no time to fight

Just empty lanes and yellow lights

I pulled aside but didn't stop

Your jacket in the glovebox dropped

The seat still holds your shape somehow

But nothing's warm inside it now

The signs all changed, the names look new

But every route still leads to you

I keep the volume halfway high

So I don't hear the questions why

Rearview shows a shade I knew

Not quite real, not fully true

You're not behind, you're not ahead

You're somewhere lost in what we said

No photos left, no final song

But every road feels slightly wrong

The city moves, the traffic hums

But none of it knows where you're from

The door you closed still makes that sound

I pass that bar, don't look around

The drinks are colder than before

And silence lives behind each door

The maps are clean, no names erased

But I still feel the space you placed

Between the words you didn't send

And what we called a perfect end

This isn't grief, this isn't rage

It's just a line across a page

Drawn in a car that won't reverse

With feelings stuck in second verse

Rearview shows a shade I knew

Not quite real, not fully true

You're not behind, you're not ahead

You're somewhere lost in what we said