Delhi and Flint
Pay for water; no water comes
Forth
There is no Moses at the spring
To channel water from an
Ordinary source made
Miraculously (cleanly) abundant
Through divine agency
Flint, a town in Michigan,
Faced with lead-infecting water
For the families and the other
Centers of community
Delhi, the second most-populated
City, now with broken waterways
Facing silent threats of thirst
And starvation and disease
Mis-directed plans, protests
Aggressive, violent
Innocents trapped between;
For lack of clean, living currents,
Why cannot—in global, protected
Pipes the size of bunkers made
Of (lead-free) new solid kinds
Of concrete and PVC (see, plastic
Can have its use)—why cannot
The world simply drink?
I’d do the same with food to
Stave off starving, if I could, and
Disease, if it could be tunneled
Under without harming anything,
Beneath
But instead of magic utterances
Or nations’ decrees
I have only these
clcouch123 
February 24, 2016 at 4:52 am
Oh wow. A poem so beautifully written that overflows with relevance. Yes, you only have your words. And words have power. I believe they do.
February 24, 2016 at 4:19 pm
Thank you for believing there’s movement here: that, as you say, it overflows. Yes, I believe that words have power. Thank you for reminding me (us) of that.
February 25, 2016 at 3:51 am
You are welcome. 🙂 I am more than happy to say those things as they are all truth. 🙂
February 24, 2016 at 5:11 am
Significant problem, why if it is so easy for us in first world countries, why can’t we all drink clean water. There shouldn’t be placed who have this problem anymore. Yet there is… Sad poem, what can we do but write about it, raise awareness. It seems in countries where clean water is needed, many leaders are corrupt…
February 24, 2016 at 4:24 pm
Yes, we should separate out basic needs from the competitive economy. Water, food, shelter, learning. Then we can profit from other enterprises. Something like that. If we’re not taken care of basically, then what’s the point of all the rest? Thanks for your insight. Yes, I think we can we can raise awareness. I guess we’re raising it in our expressions and exchange.