I live in a rural area in Tennessee. We are blessed with an abundance of clear mineral springs. One issue that faces many small towns with few zoning rules, is that the water bottling companies come in and buy, or lease, local springs and carry the clean water far away. We are facing this problem now in Giles County. Here is a poem I wrote to shed light on this situation.

CAMPBELLSVILLE SPRING

A Dedicated Action

Who will speak for Campbellsville Spring?

Clean clear water, full of healing minerals

720 gallons every minute.

Who will speak for Campbellsville Spring?

Bottling company ready to pounce

The water, health of our children and their babies too

Life force itself.

Campbellsville Spring who will cry for you?

The vultures prey on what is dead,

The bottling company preys on what is alive.

Who will cry for Campbellsville Spring?

Throughout our solar system water seems rare

Yet our planet flows with abundant

Rivers, creeks, ocean, and fresh springs

From deep underground.

If we sell this jewel we sell our very health.

For the hard truth is this:

Every river and creek in our county is polluted.

Yet our spring is pure.

If it is sold, what will be left?

We shall speak for Campbellsville Spring!