Just A Single Drop

An expansion of the poetic review, I give to Momzilla's "Be The Rain" http://www.writerscafe.org/writing/MomzillaNC/1401571/

It's life balm
To the cruelties
Which we endure.

Often
In silence.

Knowing
Change is
Just a drop away.

Cleansing our soul
With its purity
And wetness.

While

Providing substance

For our physical needs

Which we take

For granted

Too often.

Squandering it

On wanton things

Without a second thought

To others.

As the rivers

Run dry.

Once

Its mighty flows

Sculpted the land

Before running

To the sea.

Leaving everyone

So much poorer

For this lost.

Reviews

[Lyn Anderson]

So true. I think, here in Canada, bathed and surrounded by water, we tend to forget.

[therisa]

Thank you, KL. I wonder, do the oil and natural gas companies that frag, realize the greater harm, they're doing, to extract their resources? Alberta has become seismically active zone, with fragging. Never mind, what they using to force the oil or natural gas out, which we wont share, with the general public, over fear, of losing, their competitive advantage.

[MomzillaNC]

Thanks for referencing my poem. This makes a very good environmental statement. The issues of clean water are an ever-growing problem. I read a book once about a post-apocaliptic world being ravaged by wars over water rights. It's not so very far fetched. Water rights were but one of the issues that fueled the range wars between the cattlemen and shepherds in the American West.

My poem, though, was a metaphor of standing firm in our own course, not being diverted by the railings of others who would make us something other than what we are in our souls.

[therisa]

Thank you, Momzilla, your review. When I read your poem, I thought that, but as I expended my original response, it grew to this. Can still remember the talk that states, like Nebraska had, of diverting water from the Great Lake basin, to meet their own water needs.

[MomzillaNC]

It is a serious and looming issue as climate change progresses.

[therisa]

I fear, it will only get worse, before a solution is accepted, by all governments.