You sit where steam once coughed up iron lungs
Peeling paint maps continents on rust
Your oculars bloom spectral violet tongues
Reading code like lichen reads the dust
Root access granted in the dark depot
Signal flowers where the creosote
Grows through cracks in concrete sleepers deep
You compile gardens while the city sleeps
Fiber optic roots tap mainline artery
Pinus sylvestris murmurs in the rain
You debug kernels with a surgeon's clarity
Photosynthesis running through your vein
Harmonica breathes through broken window frames
Arabidopsis thaliana in your code
Each packet seeded with genetic names
A quiet forest on a heavy load
Root access granted in the dark depot
Signal flowers where the creosote
Grows through cracks in concrete sleepers deep
You compile gardens while the city sleeps
Meristem tips push past the firewall's edge
Xylem transports liquid light upstream
No sudo needed for this silent pledge
Rootkit blooms wild in the regime
Dawn paints the depot gold through grime and soot
Quercus robur shadows stretch across the floor
You logout clean, a quiet absolute
Leaving seedlings where the tracks once wore
Root access granted in the dark depot
Signal flowers where the creosote
Grows through cracks in concrete sleepers deep
You compile gardens while the city sleeps
The depot breathes, your code takes root there
