A poem for January 2015

A poem for the month - January 2015

Cells

I followed the link, it lead me to

An article in Scientific American

Someone had proved what we already knew

And have known since the human race began

That we are, all of us, interconnected

There's no such thing as an individual

Scientists have now detected

In some people they studied, cells residual

Cells inside them that were not their own

Handed down to them from their mothers

Or sometimes their siblings, some cells were shown

To be from their sisters or their brothers

No one is sure what these odd cells do

But they lurk in our brains and hide in our hearts

And more than ever they show it's true

We're the past, the future, and the sum of our parts