Genes gather as seed at the heart of cells
to make us single unified beings,
not just bowls of biological soup. 
Storms rack genes, blaze new norms.
Cells turn maverick, strike off on a limb –
free radicals ranged against the seed.
Democracy becomes Autocracy.
Secularism becomes Theocracy.
Voices freed after centuries of struggle
bay for unilateralism and lumpen law,
for violent aggression amid poverty.

Peaceful co-existence becomes embarrassment.

The seed knows:
large tracts of biodiversity
heralds its survival.

The seed knows:
it can unify ecosystems, clans, religions
but not when genes turn radical
not when cells turn cancerous:
overpopulation, division, overconsumption
and a deliberate proliferation 
of hate 
that consumes all.