Water Pollution

 

I was the liquid ribbon

of purity flowing

beneath the earth

 

I thought that I was free

but then they encarcerated

my perfect body

selling me bottled

for R6.50

 

I longed for the river bed

before the ground grew hostile

 

an epiphany -

 

I am purer in my plastic prison

than I would be

mixing with the debris

of those who imprisoned me