I am bent out of shape
depleted
dammed.
Polluted and drained
No longer flowing
I did all I could
while they kept the dam going.
Erosion and sediment are my thanks for what I have done.
I provided for them gave them food and water
but I have been dammed by human progress.
They say I have done well producing electricity
Filling homes with light and energy.
Providing irrigation to feed man's selfish mouths.
They say I am good
I'm just like the Hoover.
But all I see is despair while others hardly seem to care.
The children I cared for are now being disturbed due my neglect.
Unable to reproduce and thrive
I see them dying one by one.
My banks have gone
along with the water they used to hold.
I'm Trapped behind concrete walls
Unable to flow and forced to watch the destruction below.
Gradually
Slowly
my banks have disappeared.
I am slowly dying
Being drained away
Just like the environment
but there is no other way.
For the progress of man
is apparently good enough.
That I should give up my life as well as those around me.
Why should we be dammed to a fate we do not deserve.
Everywhere I turn.
The creatures I have spent my life protecting
Are displaced
Dying.
While I am eroded slowly
the plants once holding me together
gone.
I am slowly fading away along with these creatures.
I am no longer their protector,
but their bane.
All because I was dammed from the start.
