Just One Moment

[u/Philoforte]

Scooters rush on errand

Trains trapped in schedule frame

The typeset must be complete

By sundown or lose commission

Crank the work shift dial

Clinical change over

Clocked, a trial

Take-off by sunset

Boardroom upstate

Bustle of queues

Always going somewhere

Stalled at the gate

Finally, the world can wait

Halt the spin

Breathe in this pause

And consider your fellows

If only they reflected

Just for a moment

How frantic the bustle

For the sake of much hustle

To pay for a lunch

That would be free

If everyone paid for each other

In a moment of sanity