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