Lone standing tuft
Defy the foot
What age are you in carpet years?
Is it spring and you're the first to wake
Or are you old but still strong enough
To keep what winter was to take?
Lone standing tuft
Defy the foot
Is it work that you're still standing
And you've not been flattened too?
You remember in the little wind that's squeezed out by my shoe
Lone standing tuft
Defy the foot
Your tuftiness, mutated soul
your strand are made of steel
Is it sheer determination that you've never been beneath the heel?
Lone standing tuft
Defy the foot