Poet Spotlight: laughhard25
This poem is inspired by the article "Issue Overview: Gene editing" found at newslea.com
Oh Crispr what to do with you?
Who knew a tool with such kind intention be a problem?
Now we can change the very thing that makes you, you.
But do we know it's for the better or worse?
As anything else that has a helpful intention
It can always be ruined by the hand of evil doers
It's like a wood carver cutting and carving but
The catch is every cut and carve can never be fixed
Just as Crispr cuts DNA
after the cut there's no back button
Oh Crispr what to do with you?
In the hands kindest intention can save and fix lives
In those dirty hands of evil will forever ruin the lives
Oh Crispr your just a pyramid of playing cards
having to places the cards in the perfect formation
Put the smallest mistake and that pyramid fall apart
just like a mistake in DNA
Oh Crispr what to with you?
Author's Explanation
A question that will be asked, "Why did you chooses the article Issue Overview Gene editing?" I will tell you I am a person in love with science and math, so it just made sense to protest a article of science.
Science is a forever growing tool for new discoveries. As people we are supposed to nurture that plant of science to its greatest.
Now let's explain why the structure of my poem is how it is. The spaces in between the stanzas are so the reader can pause and think of the question or the statement. Then the repetition of "Oh Crispr what to with you?" is me say to the reader come up with laws to keep Crispr in check. I use simile so people can relate to, because not everyone is a science.