Water
I cover this earth with my body.
I fill the cavernous space you call ocean lakes and streams.
I move in fluid, gas and solid.
I fill up the human form.
I sleep your vessel.
Nations have risen and fallen for me.
I own the rain, I am the clouds, I am the collector…
I am home.
I am life.
I deserve more respect and care
You try tax me—
You try capture and exploit me
You believe that existence matters to me?
You price your lives, you price me—You have yet to feel wrath.
So arrogant, so human!
I know when me children need me
I value life because I am life
I am free…yet you seek to empty me with endless thirst for destruction and consumption.
I have heard their cries through my sister the wind.
They have ingested a foul version of me.
I have felt their pain…I am their tears.