Just Another Day

A leaf drifts on the wind, past a stray cat stretching in the sun, a crack in the pavement glistens with rainwater. A balloon floats, forgotten, tugged by invisible threads of air. The sound of a train hums in the distance, while a lone sock lies abandoned on the sidewalk. Someone laughs from a window overhead, their voice carried away like the leaf, until all that’s left is silence, and the quiet pulse of the city.