Liquid Gold Comments

Mary, to us it's just water but for so many others the line between life and death is as clear as clean water. We waste it, they crave it. A powerful and compassionate write! Brian

Oops Mary do I hear the screech of the ploughshare hitting bedrock in this poem's last couplet?

Mary, you are so beautiful and considerate, and I appreciate that!

Being stuck in the desert, I miss taking baths - and I don't even like them. I do like this poem, however!

There are at least a couple of hearts in evidence here. H

this poem hit right to the core how tough are we when the condition calls for us to stand up and be counted as a people when we are deprived of the things in life we take for granted like water, food and a roof over our heads history is full of tradgedy a great write mary WARM REGARDS ALLAN

This is very poignant and timely. How quickly we forget that we live like kings and queens but more often than not undeservedly so.

Written in reaction to hurricane Katrina.