Cuyahoga, 1969
Ring any bells?
When nature defied herself
When water became fire
That's not poetic imagery.
The Cuyahoga river was literally lit into fire
Like 14 times too many
Water isn't meant to burn
But enough waste can even reverse what's meant to clean
When will we learn?
Remember that oil spill that blew up our facebooks recently ?
Recently as in before the parental invasion led to a generational mimicry of white flight
with millennials exiting stage right
We shared memes of Spongebob ready to be thrown out and Nemo never making it home
because he and it were gone
We still haven't learned. 1969, 2010, 2020 - what's the difference?
Same actions, same consequences.
I'm not cynical if it's cyclical.
But I'm hypocritical and egotistical,
if I don't realise that I'm just as apocalyptical
My insecurities and insincerities, unresolved traumas and general tragedies
Leak into the pristine beauty of people around me
Polluting their healthy
Until they can't even see their reflection clearly
What happens when you're the cause of Cuyahoga disasters?
Cancel yourself?
Can we be made clean?
If so, oil can't clean itself. And if we're all oily,
we'll just be polluting each other blindly.
Create in me a clean heart, O God.
If humans can set water ablaze,
then You can transform toxics,
our poison can be purified.
Jesus, You said that if we believed in You; rivers of living water will flow from us
Just because it's biblical
doesn't mean it's mythical;
it might just be the miracle
that breaks the Cuyahoga cycle.
