Floodlights.

The air grows brisk in October

The hatch hangs open in the back

My dad and brother sitting on the edge

My feet propped up on the backseat

In your invisible shadow

The place where you should be

Always seems to be next to me

I wish I could switch it off

The aching, the longing

But that would be to switch off the world

Because you're everywhere

They had this song going before the show

Wake me up when it's all over

Funny how those words bring us back

Yet we don't want to miss a thing

Well, I missed you tonight

Out to the parking lot they carried the concert

They'd dance between the cars and sing

Run up to the highway and shout

They didn't want the show to end

Guess we're not the only ones

It would have been infinite

Had you brought eternity with you

And as we drive the long road back home,

A vibrant city waves goodbye

A chiseled green tower

A sparkling sphere on a pole

A hotel shining tides of light

But my eyes strain to make out a small red word

Suspended, it would seem, in the night

I suppose the incomplete moments

Make the complete ones worth remembering.