When the Levee Blooms, Have no Fear
Civilizations spring up along fertile rivers in the middle east and Africa. The water was the fuel that gave the settles the needed life-force to survive without wandering. The rivers would overflow their banks once a year and deposit their black gold. The black gold would be rich with nutrients to maker their cereal crops grow.
As man’s dependence grow on the life giving waters so to did he attempt to regulate them. To be able to guide where the rivers would overflow, or protect themselves from the ravages of the rivers after man began to live so closely to the edge.
Earthen works were constructed to keep the rising waters at bay. They thought they had the technology to keep back the rhythmic cycles of nature. For a time the works were successful, but eventually the levee would fall into disrepair and collapse.
Civilizations still build these levees. In fact there is a huge earthen one within walking distance from my home. Do I feel safe with them in place? I feel only somewhat protected because I know no matter what man builds nature can always take them down with a blink of an eye. The levees may be overrun in flash or they could crumple under the weight of debt.
Have no fear, it is not the levee that protects I, it is the love that does. Let the blossoms bloom over the levees let their roots wiggle between the cracks in the cement and cover their surface with purple blossoms. Have no fear.