Salt River

Salt River ran
up over the banks
and swelled in it’s ranks
to become the flood of the century
Salt River ran downstream
covering the bones of those permanently put to bed
sealing lips and dreams of soldiers long dead
Along its grassy green banks
Salt River ran bent
Carefree unknowing people
took life as content
The people and the river
yes they did trust
Hung onto their lives
and did what they must
Salt River harbored secrets
currents of darkness, currents of spies
the river meandered through a course
fraught with lies
The rain came early summer,
pounding river, vast overflows
The people hid in their houses
crying out their woes
Salt River was brackish, cold and deep
The people that trust no more
now drowned in their sleep