Small Things

You stopped sending me the songs / You used to play when driving home / I noticed after several weeks / But didn't ask where they had gone / You started taking calls outside / Even when the room was warm / I learned to read the way you smiled / When you wanted to end a conversation / We kept the same familiar friends / We kept the restaurant downtown / You ordered what you always did / I watched you barely touch your food / We talked about the landlord / The groceries and your sister's car / Things that filled an hour nicely / Without getting anywhere / It wasn't one bad evening / There wasn't someone else / No suitcase by the doorway / No reason I could tell / We just became very careful / With the parts that mattered most / Until asking how you really were / Felt almost too personal / One Sunday you were laughing / At something on your phone / I looked at you and realized / I hadn't heard that laugh in months / You asked if I was hungry / I said I wasn't sure / Then you made something for yourself / And left my plate beside the door / I suppose that's how it happened / Not loudly / Not all at once / Just fewer things to tell you / Until there was nothing left to ask