The River by Phillippa Yaa de Villiers | Poems Rethabile Likes
The River by Phillippa Yaa de Villiers | Poems Rethabile Likes The River by Phillippa Yaa de Villiers One day the Hillbrow Tower started to cry. Real tears poured down its sides collected in the gutters, and ran down Banket Street, and when the other buildings saw the tower's sadness they started to weep in sympathy. Soon the whole city was sobbing, the tears joined other tears and filled the depressions and valleys. They covered the koppies, and collected in City Deep, cascading over Gold Reef City flooding Fordsburg and soaking Soweto. They flowed until they became a river t...