when she is driving home

she sees the lights
in the sky

like so many other nights
when her father was driving
and she and her sister

were sitting in the back

like so many other nights

when they would follow the lights
until they found them

beaming up from so many

obscure car dealerships and

grand openings of gas stations

all that has changed now

she doesn't follow the lights

she knows the kinds of places
they are coming from

she has been there before

she knows that a woman
just like her

is standing at the center
of the group of lights

watching them burn out into the sky
waiting for someone to drive by

for someone to find her

turn off the lights

and take her home.