Inner Workings

Sometimes you are made aware
Of how your insides work.
It's really quite enlightening,
Like watching coffee perk.

Perhaps you notice as your heart
Accelerates its pounding;
You note the switching of its gears,
And realize it's astounding.

Or else your stomach starts to churn
To aid in your digestion;
You marvel at its complex moves,
Completed without question.

At times you rack your memory
And wonder at its lapses;
Remembering biology,
You know it's missed synapses.

Blood is flowing in your veins;
Cells might be dividing.
Sometimes far below the surface,
Cancer might be hiding.

Everything inside proceeds
And we don't have a say;
Automatic pilot's on
And mostly stays that way.

This is how it's always been
And will remain, eternal.
We are at the mercy of
The power of the internal.