Movement.
Cars rushing
people running
fast.

Dogs barking
kids crying
humans yelling
hurry.

Never time to
notice.
no time to
care.

Somewhere
a weedpushes
through a crack
screaming
for freedom.

Dogs pause.
People stop.
Traffic halts.
Children quiet.

Everyone
turns their heads
straining to hear
life

as an old man
slowly bends
with cracking knees
and yanks the weed
from the scarred earth

Sending existence
rushing on.