Nihilist

Every step

Pressed onto the concrete

Slowly sinking deeper

Into tenacious soil

Costs the scarce treasure

Of a childhood memory

When I crossed the same street

Searching for flowers to pick

Reaching for leaves of autumn

But now walk to the other side

My young arms now reaching

For me to stop in place

But I can't be frozen

There is no time

For me to decide

If I wait too long

Looking both ways

When it rolls onto the street

Left to the care of none

Until the rain sheds tears

For another life