Friend or Foe?
It drips from faucets clear – drop by drop. Steady sounds of unbearable torture
Drooping plants and flowers call to it – Give me strength
A desert’s claim of power knows not of its being.
Yet an oasis of hope nurtures its very essence.
It tempers fire’s embers
Scientists refuse to call it by name, you are only two letters and a number
Earth is its home. It exists more than anything else, and it continues to grow
It’s pulled from the sky, so there is no escape.
Its growth is not its own. It has a dark side.
It takes from others.
It borrows from the frozen places where man’s foolishness has let ice flow
It taints the world that prisons it by utilizing more of man’s mistakes.
Acidic torrents make things wilt and die.
It relishes in the power it holds and the destruction that uses its force to kill
But why?
You are needed. You bring life. You quench a need that means survival.
You are our savior.
You are water.
