Immortal
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* Allison Mary N Shepherd

*   poetry
*   art
*   medicine
*   Trinidad and Tobago
*   Mount Hope

> > My telomeres are endless,
> > 
> > Nanobots course through my blood,
> > 
> > Not a cyborg,
> > 
> > No 3D-printer organ curiosities,
> > 
> > Evolution speculation,
> > 
> > Imagined.
> 
> > On ethical dunes that scatter and reform,
> > 
> > Tenuous bindings from your unenlightened age,
> > 
> > Your history leads to me,
> > 
> > You wanted me,
> > 
> > Yearned for me.
> 
> > Know all you create,
> > 
> > I am You,
> > 
> >    A creator,
> > 
> >       A destroyer,
> > 
> >          In perpetua.

## Footnotes

*   Competing interests None declared.

*   Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.