In Your Glasses

You’re laughing at nothing in the front seat

Feet kicking rhythm to a backbeat

Sun coming in through the side window

I can see myself

In your glasses

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You talk fast, like you’ve got somewhere to be

Big ideas in a world you can’t reach

Pointing out shapes in the clouds above

Telling me what you’re dreaming of

I nod along like I understand

But I’m just trying to hold this span

Of a moment I know won’t last

So I look again, I see it flash

I can see myself

In your glasses

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And if time keeps moving like it always does

I hope you keep a little piece of us

In the small things people miss or pass

Like reflections shining back in glass

You don’t know it, but it matters more than chances

I can see myself

In your glasses

⸻

You ask me things I can’t explain

Like why people hurt or why it rains

I try my best, but you just smile

Like you knew the answer all the while

You lean your head when you’re getting tired

Still full of spark, still wired

And in that quiet, in between

You show me what I used to be

I can see myself

In your glasses

⸻

One day you won’t sit this close

Won’t need me the way you do the most

But I hope somewhere in who you are

I’m still there, even from afar

Not in words or photographs

But in the way you see the past

I can see myself

In your glasses

⸻

So keep on talking, I’ll stay right here

Through every laugh, through every year

If I fade in time, I won’t be gone

I can see myself

In your glasses