Quintessence Piece

For homework we each chose an item that was quintessential to ourselves. We then were required to write a piece, any type of piece, about the "quintisential" item. I chose water.
Water is quintessential.
Some say it is the blood of the earth.
Water feeds.
My soul, my body, my health, my happiness, my life.
If it weren’t for water.
Where would I swim?
What would I drink?
What would give me satisfaction?
Or moisturize my soul?
Every day I drench my body in
The blood of the earth.
My parched insides finally slaked with it
My cracked and arid smile quenched with water.
Water moves through me and the earth
A cycle
The cycle of life