You rest on wet pavement stones
Chrome reflections shift like bones
Steam rises from grates below
Time moves slow where roots don't grow
Brass patience waits for dawn
Neon bleeds on wet asphalt lawn
Tick by tick the night dissolves
Morning light the dark resolves
Rain writes code on copper face
Droplets trace each fitted case
Quercus roots would understand
Time expands in dripping sand
Brass patience waits for dawn
Neon bleeds on wet asphalt lawn
Tick by tick the night dissolves
Morning light the dark resolves
Cats avoid your metal crown
Pupils wide in sodium down
You don't rush you don't compete
Photosynth in concrete street
Stomata open at first light
Chlorophyll drinks synthetic night
No anxiety no hurry here
Just the turning of the gear
Brass patience waits for dawn
Neon bleeds on wet asphalt lawn
Tick by tick the night dissolves
Morning light the dark resolves
Courier bikes splash past your chain
Data packets in the rain
You outlast the corporate clock
Anchored deep in bedrock lock
Brass patience waits for dawn
Neon bleeds on wet asphalt lawn
Tick by tick the night dissolves
Morning light the dark resolves
Dawn fractures through smoggy veil
Brass grows warm turns pale as scale
Hands align with solar noon
Another cycle coming soon
Brass patience waits for dawn
Neon bleeds on wet asphalt lawn
Tick by tick the night dissolves
Morning light the dark resolves
Brass patience waits for dawn
You outlast the night withdrawn
Tick tick root tick tick grow
Time flows where the grasses know