Monday, June 25, 2018

From Homo erectus to Henrietta Lacks - Immortalised



You mutated a longer strand
of my two lakh years old genes
and here I am penning my poems
from the helical bond of DNA
gurgling four letters, paired
into my billion genomes
inside a nucleus

What faith could I envelop
on my Mitochondrial Eve
that by spreading a change
it lessened predated humans
into more of a present man
engineering his hands, on
Mapping an immortalised gene

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