The age of the water bear(ers)

2022.09.08

The only thing worse than deafness is hearing without empathy.

R.E. Grant

People rush to unravel the depths of me,

Leafing through the pages of my existence.

Yet they assume my past is my entirety,

Reducing me to a lab puppy, a backstory.

I ponder if DNA, too, shares my sentiment,

Forever misinterpreted by logical minds.

They believe decoding it unlocks life's secrets,

But what if I reveal a truth they fail to find?

Observable facts and decipherable codes,

Mere fragments comprising a meager percent.

There's more to grasp beyond what's exposed,

To truly understand, one must circumvent.