when you're driving away from someone at night and you watch them stand from the rear-view mirror, they grow farther and it seems as if the darkness is engulfing their entirety and it just feels like they're fading away

that's what i saw in your eyes

they were dark and deep and you were silent and present yet your eyes, they were bidding farewell as i stared into them

but maybe i'm wrong

maybe i'm not the one driving away and maybe i'm not the one leaving, i don't think i was the one running off

maybe i was the one fading from the view of your mirror and maybe i was the one watching you in your car leave me behind, slowly inching away