Urban River
Urban River
River of my youth
My love you have not aged well
You taught me to swim
We had bold adventures
Pirate dreams,
Jungle swings,
Told me secret stories
Soothed my insect bites
In your medicinal mud.
River of my youth
A prisoner now
After the flood
When in a fit youthful exuberance
Drunk with the excess of some tropical rain storm
You washed away seventeen
Houses.
So they encased you in concrete
Sentenced you to a slow sad death
Scared the children away.
No more secret stories now
Your medicinal mud a festering sore.
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