Water

Damp to the core,
Earth's deepest fires it would seem
Are in danger of dying out.
From our core to the clouds
Water alone remains
Of the four elements:
I am water, the stones are water,
The earth is water and every bush and berry,
Every leaf and tree
Is water.
You, too, are water.
Water has washed away
The clear, sharp lines that delineated this from that,
That defined one life from another life,
That limited the meaning of I and you,
Suggested to us this could never happen.
The distinctions are gone.
We are at once invisible and opaque,
Whole and complete,
We are water.