Water – too little, too much

 

One essential commodity far beyond price
and yet inaccessible for too many thousands
trudging for hours weighed down with containers
from remote muddy pool to primitive hut
for needed but disease-laden liquid.
Listless children buzzing with flies,
gasp and lie lifeless.
Such scenes haunt.

Excess has an equal impact –
storms rage, rivers swell,
inundate rich pastures
destroy roads, bridges
and homes
take lives.

for Poetic Bloomings prompt 137 using all but two of the words from Wordle 143

 

illuminates, impact, remote, scenes, storm, one,haunt, litter, need, pool, lifeless, price thousand