#freeverse #poetry
Do you feel fear that makes no sense?
Do you have anger you can't explain?
Are you haunted by traumas you didn't
Experience yourself? You are not alone.
Epigenetic inheritance is backed up by
Science, we can inherit our ancestors' pain. Something witches have known
For centuries. Science has caught up.
Stress does not fade. It lives in you.
It leaves molecular scars on your DNA,
It doesn't change the code, but it
Does change how your genes behave.
Children of the Holocaust survivors
And descendants of the Irish Famine,
Have developed altered stress chemistry
As a biological response to past trauma.
If trauma can echo down the generations
So, we can be healing every time we
break a pattern of behaviour, forgive, breathe, rest, and choose peace over violence and war.
This will re-write the signal we pass on.
The power resides within us all.
We are not just people, but a bridge
Between the past and the possible.
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2025
**Based on Professor Brian Cox's explanation on epigenetic inheritance. He always makes science easy for the lay person to understand. The reference to 'Witches' is my own.**
VIXEN of VERSE 
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