AFTER THE FLOOD

AFTER THE FLOOD After the flood has subsided With insurance claims made Pertaining to the destruction There’s all the reconstruction The memories will never fade And reluctant moves decided Now leaving a riverside location After years of increasing prices Insurance premiums now sky high And still the ground is not dry Fearing a repeat of such a crisis And little advance information Perhaps a home on a mountain But never on a low marshy plain Nor situated by a body of water Flooding offers few any quarter Is our future to be constant rain Drains overflow like a fountain It’s climate change, they all say But there’s been floods before Seas just a metre or two higher In coastal regions it will be dire It’s history, so just talk to Noah Maybe it’ll happen again one day