Burned Out

 

Took my empty bucket
down to the lake
for some much needed
fluid replenishment

Unfortunately
for parched me
and all of us fragile 
Terra inhabitants
our life source had gone dry

As was the mighty stream
that til very recently
had filled our cups to the brim

Now nothing but a cracked
rock hard drought highway
leading us to extinction

We looked to the acid sky
seeking relief
but nary a cloud was to be found
over this now desperate landscape
of rapidly diminishing returns