There is an apartment that looks over the river,
people tried to cross,
           so much loss,
    the fish had teeth,
they unleashed hate,
surreal,
wild men with wild dogs roamed the banks,
the river swept the people away, but didn't move
someone parted the water one day, in many places
there were tear stained disbelieving faces
                              then one day,
many other people came to play,
they left their apartments over-looking the river,
they came from near and far, they were determined,
they brought machines and cranes and sledge hammers,
they pounded on the river and chipped at the
concrete,
with re-bar
ribs, human muscle tore it down,
machines
built it in place
and the faces
of different men broke the river, they changed
the course,
of history,
the apartment is empty
and fallen, the country is full, humanity flows
through the new
geography, memories
have not been lost
or forgotten, but the choice
emptied the river,
healing began and
sure, real people
helped
to let life flow again