The Present-Day Most Powerful Ruler





The most powerful ruler on earth

He doesn't rule just one country

He rules the whole world

Even in places that are nearly impossible to get at




He isn't 100% cruel

But he isn't 100% kind either

He saves dying people

But murders children



He wasn't voted into office

He wasn't birthed into a long line of ancestors

He simply was and has always been present




The most powerful ruler on earth is

Water

 


 

He is present in every corner of the earth

Even in the desert

Where sands create artificial ocean waves

Rain will sprinkle their tops


Even within us

Water is present

Without him 

We would shrivel up 

Like a dehydrated watermelon



Water is a cruel ruler

Without warning he will flow down riverbeds

Flooding houses

Carrying away women and children as hostages

Yet at the same time

These flashfloods are essential

They raise the height of the underground water reserves 




Water is a kind ruler

He cares not whether murder or a child is in need

He rains down on both

Providing the resources needed for crops to grow

Giving livestock milk for their young

Whereby setting food on the table for both the child and the murder





We did not vote Water into office

We had no choice but to give him his seat

Without him

We are dead


He was not grandfathered into his position

I have yet to find

What came before water



As long as there has been living things on our planet

Water has been present


From the most powerful ruler on earth

Comes life





I like to find stories in unlikely places and connect them with unlikely subjects. Here are stories and analogies that I see as I travel around the world.

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