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There is no grand scheme

Though genetics might suggest this

We're not the fever dream

Of a watchmaker in the sky

I may have inherited

A bias towards the negative

But I don't walk upon

A predetermined path

She captured images

Of the wonders of DNA

While most of us

Barely break the surface of the everyday

She captured images

Of the wonders of DNA

While most of us

Barely break the surface of the everyday

Yet another year

Trapped forever in the red

Does your chemical recipe

Constantly drag you down?

Are you doomed to push

That rock back to that mountaintop?

Or will you break the shackles

That exist just in your mind

She captured images

Of the wonders of DNA

While most of us

Barely break the surface of the everyday

She captured images

Of the miracle of DNA

While most of us

Barely break the surface of the everyday

Our footprints in the sand

Chances are will fade away

Some seem born to leave

Impressions that endure

Vision and persistence

Might be key to immortality

But the key that she had cut

Was spirited away

She captured images

Of the wonders of DNA

While most of us

Barely break the surface of the everyday

She captured images

Of the miracle of DNA

While most of us

Barely break the surface of the everyday

That double helix

It was hers before they hijacked it

Unrecognized till long after her dying day

Our footprints in the sand

Chances are they'll fade away