Water Is Life ~ Life Is Water

Ho water!
Sustainer of life,
You that has both life and death in your power
You show your wrath
By fading out of our pounds, streams and rivers,
Increasing your salinity
And tainting yourself with pathogens,
These are the weapon of your vengeance
When humanity abuse you.
But with your fury you still love us,
Like a mother’s love for her first born child
Your gentle touch eases my nerves
And relaxes my muscles
From you I satisfy my thirst,
You give free to the animals of the wide;
From the biggest to the smallest,
The prey and the predator.
Oh mother of mothers you deserve to be called.
The magi in the desert smile and make
Their tents where your oasis of love is found.
Without you
There would be no life.
Oh great and wonderful molecule water.
I cry out every spring
The season of your plentifulness
Water is life,
Life is Water.

Poem by Ezediuno Louis Odinakaose