Notice of absence from L. B. Mek
'fare ye well' kind friends
'fare ye well' kind friends
2021, March 22nd a Monday
happens to be: World Water Day
and each one of us
striving to survive, lost
in our first-world laments
will use, enough drinkable water
between our showers
washed cutlery or clothes
and flushed toilets;
in a single, week
to save, thousands
of the world’s
most dehydrated
and emaciated, children
just a thought...
No, these words aren’t designed
to sabotage your day
or belittle our personal struggles
just, a little reminder
to help us all realise
that we
are truly, some of the lucky ones
in existence
and hopefully, help us remember
those gifts
we take for granted: in every sip...
© L. B. Mek
March 2021
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L. B. Mek (
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So very true Mek, we are so fortunate in our lives but those without water can be helped if only those in power would climb down from their ivory towers and see the real world.
Andy
how very true Andy, but you see
water is the gateway to budding fruits, and those fruit's quickly create a legacy, as testament to tangible results of overcome struggles
and if people have a heritage of fruit's born from actualised dreams, then they'll understand: they too can conquer and oppress...
so how best to limit those pesky fruit's before they've even bud, let alone produced seeds of hope and ambition, simple really
destroy their heritage, so they constantly begin without a roadmap to success and limit: their access
to water's capacity for nurturing limitless possibility...
'for it takes a lot of design
and collective: will
to supress others for centuries
and still hide
all those tell-tell fingerprints'
Good write LB.
You touched on and reminded us of one of this world's most important problem in your well written poem. Water and food! We are indeed lucky!
yup, that's exactly how I hoped these words would be received, as a reminder: nothing more, but nothing less either..
thanks for the supportive comment dear poet
A fine reminder and well expressed in your verse ;here L.B. - - we are truly fortunate with gifts like fresh water to drink while across the ocean its lack causes suffering - to sponsor a well-dig for a small village is one way to help - - thank you for bringing World Water Day more to our attention my friend.
somehow I feel humanity's story begins and ends with water, as nature exemplifies daily, so if the best we can do is raise awareness or 'sponsor a dig' (as you so thoughtfully informed), then we should try and hope others with a greater capacity for influence, will also try..
thanks for your informative and supportive comment dear Fay
In a world that has abundance it is truly sad that our beautiful minds and talent still don't create balance before fashion or the next gadgets to be had.
Saddest human fact we struggle to learn until its gone!
Always a fantastic reminder to see how privileged most of us are, even with mental battle scars.
yup, we are all children of consequence for both good and bad
maybe all that's being asked of us in life
is to simply struggle to overcome, the bad
while learning to nurture and maximise: the good,
thanks for the insightfully succinct commentary dear poet and for inspiring my little scribbled reply,
('Balance: First'
a worthy tag line for an empathetically: just
capitalist democracy
we can all, share proudly)..
'maybe one day
for while there's breath
our dreams may still be realised
even if we're only fated
to scribble a few lines
on that chapter of change, born
from our legacy of hope
for a future, that promises
a little better'
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