Where Has All the Water Gone
Where has all the water gone?
What is not poisoned is now in poor supply…
They call it “fracking,” a way of trapping
gas or oil for fuel to meet demands of energy.
Our water on this earth is the gift of life,
creating and sustaining it for all living forms
upon this wondrous self-sustaining world.
But technology…that is the world that
no other species knows about…
except for man…our demand
for fuel...the oil or gas, extracted in
this process of this fracking…cracking…
the earth below releases chemicals
into our precious flow of water there.
And in the process, we use up this
precious fluid in capturing our prize…even
in areas already stretched thin by drought.
The gift of knowledge…sometimes
we wonder if, in the balance of knowledge
and nature, it is perhaps not a gift at all…
for, in the end, the needs that our gifted
wisdom demands will upset the balance
that the endless force of nature commands.
Where has all the water gone?
What is not poisoned is now in poor supply.
The gift of knowledge?
The doom of greed.
Where has all the water gone?
Sandra M. Haight
~5th Place~
Contest: Global Poetry: Fracking's Effect on the Water Table.
Sponsor: Debbie Guzzi
Judged 12/1/2014
Copyright © Sandra Haight | Year Posted 2014
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