Remember how to love water

There are gifts of living we’ve loved

or needed,

conflating the two,

and then built tools

or beliefs

so we could give away

or hold no

responsibility,

like water.

Use a tool for so long,

generation over generation,

and the weight of it

is lost,

like needing water to live.

Like loving the water we are

there is a way to remember. It’s a warm 

kind of pain,

a slow kind.

It gives enough time to

really consider

or feel 

a response.

A merciful pain.

Where are the tools to feel it?

Build them now.