Your gauntlet rusts like iron oxide bloom
The platform cold as permafrost in gloom
Last carriage screams past Doppler shift and gone
You stand where moss and lichen colonize stone
Sentinel standing on the yellow line
Roots drink the dark where morning stars align
Tarnished steel and patience germinate
You watch the tracks you watch and wait
Your armor patina copper carbonate green
The deepest verdigris you have ever seen
Radicle thoughts push through concrete fissure
No tournament lists just pressure and pressure
Sentinel standing on the yellow line
Roots drink the dark where morning stars align
Tarnished steel and patience germinate
You watch the tracks you watch and wait
Xylem veins pump silence through the night
Phloem carries memories of fight
Mycorrhizal network maps the tunnel
You're rooted deep where no sun can funnel
Sentinel standing on the yellow line
Roots drink the dark where morning stars align
Tarnished steel and patience germinate
You watch the tracks you watch and wait
Dormancy breaks at four a.m. precise
Cotyledon light cuts concrete like a knife
Photosynthesis in sodium vapor glow
You sheath the blade the watch is done you go
Rhizome spreading under turnstile gates
Germination timing never late
The knight becomes the oak in winter's grasp
Watching waiting releasing the clasp
First commuters arrive like spring rain drops
The platform wakes the waiting finally stops
Your broadsword sheathed in scabbard leather bound
New growth rings form without a sound
Sentinel standing on the yellow line
Roots drink the dark where morning stars align
Tarnished steel and patience germinate
You watch the tracks you watch and wait
You watch the tracks you watch and wait
Steel rests on tile roots drink the dark
Morning breaks clean you leave your mark
