Water: Life’s keeper

A poem about water inspired by Ancient Greek Wisdom

Verse 1: Life’s custodian

Oh! Water, keeper of God’s fauna

And good guardian of Earth’s flora;

You fuel the arteries of eternal life

And ignite the currents of creative strife.

Verse 2: Biosphere’s guardian

You fill the streams and wild rivers

With primordial animals and beavers;

You give us the riches of fish and flowers

And support our life’s spiritual towers.

Verse 3: Hope’s sentinel

You keep with your cold-warm arsenal

What is evident to all, and crystal-clear

Rich, poor, old, young, wise and criminal

Hope and love, to time immemorial.

Verse 4: Divine circle

You’re always in a circle, non-stopping

Promoting all life in divine bouts of eloping;

You gratify living forms with oxygen’s purity

Cleansing all cells from carbon’s wicked toxicity.

Always remembering one of Thales’s wisest sayings:

‘Water constitutes the principle of all things’.