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