Life Blood

Something flows within the blood,
No human eye can see;
Beyond the cells and DNA,
There lies a mystery;
Fingerprints of the sublime,
A lineage of the divine,
A soul, a spirit, and a mind,
And how we came to be;

Capillaries burst apart,
Revealing wounds of old,
That wore through thread-bare sheathing,
And left the body cold;
No color left upon the skin,
No pulse that registers within;
Retreating blood that seeks to hide,
A million tales untold;

Through my arteries and veins,
The generations flow;
The blessings and the curses,
That only God may know;
The sins in my paternity,
The love in my maternity,
Intangible, yet felt within,
Forever ebb and flow.