They Well - BSue Stephenso

[Larry Robinson]

The Well

Every Day
We drop our biggest buckets down
On the strongest ropes we have, 
Hoist up as much cool and soothing water as we can lift. 

We love,
So the water level never falls.

It’s not that we don’t get enough to drink and keep our lives clean.
It’s not that the water is bad.

It is knowing about the existence of the deeper liquid:
Most, pure, clear, mysterious.
Dark, actually, it is so rarely seen (though it is not rare itself).

I want THAT.
It can only be retrieved by the many,
And only when you drink together
Does it change all of you,
Sending you down the swiftest rivers
To the sea
That is connected
To all seas.

	- BSue Stephenson