Urban Bloom

I paused awhile on the humorless steps of a somber public building; looked down at something mischievous there that playfully peeped through a dark crack on the old concrete pavement. There it is, a delicate, bright yellow flower swaying alone in the light urban breeze in dazzlingly radiant abandon, gratefully, teasingly saying, "Hello! Thank you!" to the sun that, by skyscrapers, was partly hidden.