DELUGE

The river remained like a squashed eel
An eyesore to the ferry man
Who sat hunched in the dry ferry
He was scared ...deadly scarred
The overflowing men shrouded in black
had beat him black and blue
For he had tried to stop the mining pillars
into the heart of the sparkling water s.
Dead fish lay scattered
Turtles gasped for air
The  glimmer  the sun sent across
was the last sigh of bedraggled river
The ferry man was frightened
 the curse of the naiad and nymphs
The men had flayed it alive
Raped the breath out of her, defenceless
And he, her love, could not  move a finger.
And soon they found him
Heart burst open in the mushy land
The ferry , mediator of his eternal love
Bobbing back and forth,
Unbelievingly
In the filthy remanents of her waters.
And then all hell broke lose.
Like mute heralds
The skies flashed it lightning
The water unleash ed from heavens
 awoke her from her slumber
She swelled and roared..
Like a troubled horse which lost its master
the ferry moored to its pole by chains...
She held it to her bosom and swirled
And took along with it
What was  once called the City of God!