Blessed Genes, Wicked Genes

From the unseen to the perceptible

Life expressions would be impossible

Strictly from genes, living doth fully blossom

All that follows coded from their bosom

Merely four bases, infinities flourish

Graceful alphabet, pairs justly cherished

Multiplicity ever unbridled

Homogeneities stay unheeded

From beginnings simplex to highly complex

Genes direct and guide life’s annex

Infinite varieties, essences imprinted

On each creature, uniquely created

Ingenuity exemplified

Creativity epitomized

Originality personified

Progression sanctified

Permanence certified

Replication ratified

Yes, all’s in a package, all’s a mere bale

Thrown on the laps of our destinies, nailed

For genes giveth life, so too life they taketh

Just one mutation and cancer awakes

Killing the host and its self to forsake

It too must live regardless of the stakes

Life, ailments, defects or coveted health

Directed by genes from birth till death

Encoded therein are myriads of traits

But are choices, between love and hate

So deeply embedded as to obviate

Transcendence, to choose the paths we take?

Enter Humans with eyes on the prize

For greed, they tamper with Nature’s eyes

Little do they know what lies well beyond

With myopia ‘n quick fix they respond

Seeking imagined joys where none exist

Searching far and wide for glories, they persist

From bell curves to fruits, tinkering Nature

What ain’t broke, fixing her to erasure

‘Tis wanton, boundless greed in need of fixing

Morphing hydra-like, all in its path yielding

Were love to grow thus, pains ‘n suffering

Transform into peace, concord now reigning

Look hard as we might, no greater wonders

Surpass those within us should we ponder

Empathize with mankind, whose joys now ours

Partaking of the pleasures of giving

Unconditioned by expecting their doling

Lest we refute their own bliss in ceding

How many codes do we need in life?

To grasp her secrets without strife

Rising in wisdom where modesty is might

Cohabit with Nature accepting without fight

For amity to swamp our essence with light

Fight your own shadows, in life I’ll delight

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