Cell

I wrote this for a persona exercise. The assignment was to take the voice of something that's non-cognitive. I kind of continued the tone from the poem called "Mushroom" (I forgot the author's name but a famous one) I wrote three versions of this poem, but everytime I had to start over from scratch because I lost the previous one (literally lost the previous one). So it's interesting to see how three versions of the same poem are the same yet different. Here's the only one that I managed to preserve. Please comment. I'm not too confident with poetry so please reply and tell me how to improve. Thank you.


Cell

Every day, every minute, every second
Working, controlling, manipulating
We are diligent
Our presence unnoticed
Our work undermined
But our persistent spirit is enpowering
Without praises we keep on working

We are microscopic, complex, and weightless
Synthesizing, transcribing, translating
We are paramount
Our body builds the trunk of every tree
Our genome codes for the organisms in the sea
Alone we are small and powerless
But together we achieve greatness
And without any awards we keep on going

We appear circular, rectangular, and rod-like
Phtosynthesizing, fermentating, respirating
We are diverse
Our skin changes color
From red to yellow to green and to pink
We bloat and we shrivel
Constantly changing roles to match our surroundings
And without the status of a celebrity we keep on acting

We swim in the water, fly in the air, and root in the earth
Feeding, supporting, defending
We are unified
Our cell walls are connected by junctions
Our limbs are attached by tendons
Together we hunt for food
Together we fight for life
And without titles of nobility we keep on collaborating

Archea, Bacteria, Eukarya
Mutating, dying, reproducing
We are the basis of life
Our forms evolve
Our funtions change
Yesterday we were obsolete
Today we are verstaile
In silence we will keep on reforming
And changing the future of life on earth