Oh let the river runCutting canyons through metamorphic monolithspromising a life anewsweeping away a lifetime of dreamsLet it flowwhere hope and human migrationare dashed against the rocksLabor’s sweat swirling in the river’s currentsplits the familytowing the children underLet the river flowwhere you meet the drowned dreamersdesperate gems yet unpolishedstrewn like trashwith contemptPearls too dark to belong in a trending epoch of whitenessAcross the Rio Grandethe north scattered with bones of buffalo and millennia of ancestorsbleached with sweatcovered with the dust of rubber tires and the interstateburied under cloned strip mallsand bodegas where the flow of remittances hesitate in a pool of failed aspirationLet the river runwhere dreams of the Jordan and dignity slowly settles into the toxic sediment of humiliationSmothering the strength to start over againLet it flowduring a ten minute breakThe bloodThe tearsThe fearsThe asphaltscrapes the flesh of his faceSeveral bodies sink himNetting him into a school of writhing humanity. Let the river run where liquid lives, dreams tumbleand the eternal flow of life persistsslowly carving through ice and rockFalling hometoward the seaLet the river runWashing away the soul of “America”cleansing precious stones that have been tossed away by ignorance