Begin Again - Redemption

The stresses of all these years

Their toll is manifest

Never felt

But now revealed

As I’m put to the test

This manufactured world of pain

Brings shock to the system

That rearranges DNA

Into a code of death

Evidence now introduced

The provenance is clear

Carelessness brings changes

If one is cavalier

If everything’s in balance

Our bodies respond

Bur challenges emerge as life goes on

Women cry as children become men

And all that I can do is try to set things right again

Fear and doubt, confronted by our end

But all that we can do is try to become whole again

Witness the parallels

Between life and cells

Under stress to divide

Trying to conform

To what might seem the norm

Has brought me here where I might die