The River Died
09 February 2020
RAYMOND SIGIMET
The once big river is dead
It died somehow silently
None came to the funeral
But people wept with stories
Of how great the river was |
When it fed and nourished
Each and everything that were
It looked after all that came
For life, food and cool
Each man, woman and child
Each bird, animal and fish
Each plant, grass and tree
As it flows free from a trickle
It gave free from its bosom
A good life for all
But it died uncared for
Perished while it gave freely
None went to its funeral
We are busy being greedy
Building big dams and drains
Taking and not giving back
We are busy making profit
Pouring poisons from factories
Polluting and not cleaning up
We forgot about the river
And it died slowly silently
No more life left in it
It just flows and stares
With a blank murky look
It's memory lost and dead
These pot-belly pollies should be taken to those chemically- contaminated rivers and be forced to drink from it.
Maybe then, that should be the genesis of the new covenant of anti-corruption.
Posted by: Dennis K Belas | 11 February 2020 at 09:26 AM
Reminds me of the Darling River, one of the main tributaries for the Murray River in Australia.
And the Ok Tedi of course.
If the will is there they can be saved. The Thames in the UK is a case in point. It was a rancid sewer but is now reasonably healthy.
The hard part is convincing the politicians.
Posted by: Philip Fitzpatrick | 09 February 2020 at 04:20 PM