Despite Concrete

Look where you're planted. Did they know you'd be essential?

Look where you rise up even with the odds against you

A force in the morning bringing up the people with you

With the work that you put in caring for and bearing of fruits

They will grow, despite concrete

They will grow, despite concrete

You pushed on the pavement, singing songs and talking to screens;

You rise through the ceiling like hot air if the basement had heat

You lift from the mattress: singular and worn out and shared

You still put a pin up in a cork board of goals and your hair