RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: LIFE SONGS
Running Dry
The Colorado River feeds the land
That feeds the world
When the river runs low
The battle between agriculture
Fish and wildlife
Industry and people begins
A battle no one wins
Water is life
When the river runs dry
Life shrivels and dies
Fruit on the vine
Grain and root vegetables
In dry cracked ground
Desperate and barren
Lost and unfound
Dry cracked earth
Does not grow crops
It becomes a wasteland
A host to the death spiral
Ugly and thirsting
Bleeding and bled
Dying and dead
The most fertile valley
In all the land
Will soon run dry and
The war for water will begin
We will then discover how
Human humanity really is
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