Water
By: Jehangir Saleh
Written: November 9, 2005

Aalya does not know what a machine is
She is 6 years old
Her father is missing
Her mother

While in India away from the machines
A little girl, defying her mother who is poor and thirsty, adds water to the ocean
With her bucket and pale, stolen, she sits on the beach and pours water into the endless body of wetness
Something she cannot imagine or really understand
Except that it is bigger than she is
And taking what little she has, even though it is all she has, adding to the ocean will make her bigger, like the ocean, apart of something greater than what she could ever be.

After waiting such longtime