Thirst Attack!

Sweat driven by heaven’s fiery heat

Making heads its sweltering seat

Dampness sapping strength from flesh

Mouths agape to keep one fresh

Pouring from pores, floods of sweat

Cooling bodies all soaking wet

 

Alas, solely water will quench such thirst

Downed in the tummy to slake it fast

No coke nor wine, nor milk nor beer

No nectar or juice will steer it clear

Eyes now calm, demeanors poised

Breathing easy, tempers buoyed

 

Unrivaled relief after water’s drunk

Feeling content, for life’s simple dunk

Peace prevails, thirst now fully sunk

Lives transformed all in a blink

Simply guzzling, life giver’s drink

Till next thirst, skirting the brink

 

What of thirst for knowledge,

Lusting for rite of passage?

…To wisdom’s eternal spring

Planting seeds of learning

Fending off the rape of essence

By toxic bouts of ignorance

 

Info, info everywhere

All the brains did shrink

Info, info all beware

Not a thought did sink

Wisdom like silk to wear

Adorning all who dare think

 

Shunning sources whose task

To hasten our talent’s decay

enmeshing us in trash

Leaving folks in disarray

Blinding us to ambient grace

Nature’s gifts ‘n boundless solace

 

Come drink with me from love’s spout

To marry love with wisdom’s clout

Love’s thirst seeded by self-abandon

Quenched by empathy ‘n compassion

Giving selflessly, wanting zilch back

Let love prevail, forever its thirst to whack

 

Together we grow, in wisdom and love

Cores swelling, filling a growing universe

Soaring thru’ heavens like winged doves

Beauty abounds, silent prose and verse

Godlike embraces await us in peace

Drinking freely from life and love’s kind truce

 

© Alwi Shatry, All Rights Reserved, February 5, 2019

Angeles City, Pampanga, Philippines.