Nature Week inspired POEM!!!

Before
Showers were hours long
Water was poured away carelessly
Taps were left on for hours
Sewage was dumped into lakes and rivers to save the time and energy
to treat them first

Cars were washed with free-flowing hoses
High-powered speed boats flew over furrows of water,
fumes flew over the ripple
And dispersed with the happy laughter dying away
Only a memory of the happy yesterdays

Now
No one bathes
One cup of water
is cause of much riots
Taps flow with invisible water
Sewage lies in dry beds

Cars don't traverse streets
and imaginary boats fly over imaginary lakes

Tomorrow
My children can't cross roads without being dragged into a fight
The sun shines a bloody red over barren lands
I fear for them
They no longer talk about their day
Not that there is anything to talk about
Their eyes are hollow
as if they're already prepared for the impending death
Ears that are closed to groans for water
Noses stop smelling the heavy smell of death
Lips chapped and split over and over again

What will happen to them?
What happens to me?
What happened to the world?

our world is heading there...
sigh
pray hard
moira