The Sad State of Fresh Water

Our Blue Planet Earth.
Our blue watery planet.
Our Blue-Gold Planet.
Water, water everywhere.
Unsafe for some to drink it.

The state of water.
Water, water everywhere.
Unfiltered  water.
Unsafe for one to drink it.
Filled with filthy sediments.

Once manna from Heaven,
climate change has made it scarce.
No more drinkable.
Once  deemed a common privilege,
climate change has ruined it.

As  gift of Heaven,
water forged rising of states,
and nation-building:
City states with fertile ports;
trade, shipping, and merchandise.

In time of great wealth,
we find disabilities:
Poverty widespread;
with people marginalized:
The indigenous; the poor.

Storehouse of water,
Mother Earth’s commodity,
is preciously rare.
Becoming ‘blue-gold’ bounty;
in great need by poor nations.

Lacking fresh water,
dried up wells, ponds, and rivers,
these exiled nations,
turn to wealthier nations,
for clean, fresh drinking water.

Yet greed surfaces.
Water, as commodity,
given market price.
With lust for profit motive,
selfishness is maximized.

Nature’s natural gift
is water barons fiefdom.
Their dispensary
to dole out at a profit;
with cost of life the high price.

As water barons…
ubiquitous is their greed:
their thirst for water;
for water as their ‘Blue Gold’
that they dispense unjustly.

In times of great wealth,
poverty is everywhere.
The rich get richer;
and the poor are abandoned…
for the lack of fresh water.

Our Blue Planet Earth.
Our blue watery planet.
Our Blue-Gold Planet.
Water, water everywhere.
Unsafe for some to drink it.