WATER POPPET

 

Earth is mainly composed of water

Our body is mainly composed of water

Yet the Ancient Mariner cries:

“Water, water, everywhere

Nor any drop to drink”

As the dead Albatross

No longer skimming the ocean

For evening dinner

Hangs around his neck

Warning the wedding guests

Too happy to listen

Speaking of poets I think

Of early Bob Dylan singing

“The pellets of poison are

Flooding their waters…”

So at fifteen I

Pressed my worry dolls

To my breasts

And eventually sighed

As I aged and not many died

Of poisoned water

But it’s back, the threat

And I think, I just cannot cry out

My voice no longer carries

Across land and sea

The coming generations are on their own

And I hide, nestled among intellectual thoughts

From the Materia Magica of my mind

Water represents emotions

I cooly note in my poetry

How easy to take an essential element

And turn it into a symbol

When all life as we know it

Can disappear with the Water so dear

No less than Earth and Air and Fire

How do we save the plants and animals

How do we save the birds and fish

How do we save the sun…?

 

© 2024 Clarissa Simmens (ViataMaja)

IMAGE: Worry Dolls