Flood Survivors Rebuild Poem by Mark Heathcote

What happens when your house
becomes a riverboat?
A boat that neither swims
with the current or float.
A house that's a watershed,
watermark of pure dread
how do you look or forge ahead
such hearts well with deep regret.
But somehow, you'll find new strength
pull together and make amends.
With near-certain death averted
whatever catastrophe-
brings whatever portends.
Flood survivors rebuild
pandemic survivors regroup
stand shoulder to shoulder
disasters internship
makes them stand together
soldier on twice as strong.