"Weeds Vs. Sidewalk"

In our garden, we grow weeds
in a cracked tub my parents keep by the sidewalk.

We chanced upon these weeds one spring, the ground so swampy,
the earthworms had beached themselves on the sidewalk.

My parents were so happy, in disbelief, collecting a prized Bangladeshi plant
from soil along American sidewalk!

I was young and imagined Bangladeshis as fourth friends,
braving puddles, just off the edge of the sidewalk,
Who followed me home, me alone,
only to sit in silence among the weeds.