Boiling Over

Copper kettle boiling over.

Too much water,

Too much fire.

So many inane distractions

Tend to turn the flame up higher.

 

Kettle whistles out a warning

With a sense of urgency.

Begs attention in response

To quell the fierce cacophony.

 

Who began this process, and

Where might they have gone?

Don’t they care the consequences?

Don’t they know it’s wrong?

 

Why, oh why would anyone

Begin a task

Then walk away?

Seems so feckless and so reckless,

But it happens every day.