Cheap Water

It’s been weeks since the last rain
In the valleys, snows up high.
Today a faint hope of storm

Adds a melancholy grin
To all the foreboding news.
Not so hard to understand,

These words, are we? No tricks here.
Just some lines that will be lost
Soon enough, making patterns,

Reporting to you live, from
An era when people thought
About disaster daily,

But collective disaster
Hadn’t happened, yet. What if
It did or it never does?

Small rains spatter the windows.
Satellites blink in orbit.
Armies mass. The lungs fill up.

Time to pour another glass
Of cheap water from the tap.
This world destroyed someone’s world,

Coming into existence.
Someone’s world will destroy this,
Coming into existence.