genes wear me 4/20/19

I have hardly ever worn jeans 

but all of the time genes wear me

I am the outcome as well as the outcry

wellness and sickness will chorus along

all singing the vitalities’ praises 

and the ailments’ in pleas

I am a bigger life-force then predicaments

yet haunted by the measures of circumstance

wellbeing reflected by robustness

and yet illness measuring in claims

bold predicaments will come

and soft spoken wellness will respond

their dialogue goes on incessantly

I am but the chalkboard of measure

if my spirit were chalk

there would be no need for eraser

chalk on a white board is my dream

for I am made of an ink-bleeding page

and not fingers on the keyboard of existence . . .