imagine.

water is. nourisher.
birther. bather.
life-bringer. life-bearer. life.

imagine.

in slipping into secondskin
of pelagic grace, man is freed
from linear banality.
flight beneath blue-green sky
and companioned of beasts from
more primordial truth.

imagine.

water of our hearts,
dripping from eyes uncertain.
ten thousand years of mourning
by pouring salt upon a funeral plain.

imagine.

when life itself becomes
a yoke to control the masses.

calculated. commodified. cold-hearted capitalists
drinking with unsatable thirst.
some
modern Tantalus, whose lust for needless wealth
is ever strengthened in the midst of death.

gulp.
gone the great rivers, locked behind walls of stone.
gulp.
gone the free reservoirs, no longer for Earth’s children to drink.
gulp.
gone the wetlands, sanding desolation ruling over.

imagine.

when life itself becomes Death Bringer.
as land is once again claimed
by ocean made hungry by beast-borne heat.
an island sinks beneath the waves.
a culture drowns.
the fakaseasea sung no more.

imagine.

water pouring from the sky.
God’s tears for a creation
so far removed from life.