The Water

Water Water burning bright,

In the States of this fight;

What mortal hand or eye,

Could decide your flow?

In what distant deeps or skies.

Burnt the fire of thine cries?

On what fields dare they grow?

What the hand, dare can plough?

And what court, & dam wide,

Could twist the sinews of thy tide?

And when thy valleys go dry

What good strike? O’ Nature my!

What the people? What the pain,

You do ooze through their vein?

What the dispute? what lost cause,

Dare these futile fickle laws!

When the spring ebbs underground

And water’d this earth love bound

Did you think of this day to see?

Did you descend the hills to get free?

Water Water burning bright,

In the States of this fight;

What mortal hand or eye,

Could decide your flow?

-R-

 -Inspired by William Blake's 'The Tyger', for my city Bengaluru is burning bright today :-(

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