Click on the red play arrow to hear this poem transformed to a song. The original poem is by Matt Dennison. Footage by cengiz Z. Song created/performed by SUNO AI. The text of the poem is presented below the video.
The Boy by the River Told
The boy by the river told to await his father’s
return plays with pebbles, kicks at rocks
as the night rises through water,
drops from trees to fashion a statue
cast in grey then black when the last
spark of faith flickers, falters
and goes out, the night
rushing in, floating him upright,
stiff through the woods to lie in bed
listening to water spilling from
room to room, door to door,
the whole house shivering, shaking,
breaking down under water flashing,
flooding quietly down the stairs,
pooling, stopping, crawling
past the father unseen.
