Does Thought Affect DNA?

If genes could be affected by

Ones meditating, possibly

It might be a good reason why

You’d go into the library,

And maybe read a book or two

To learn a little more about

Whatever you might have in you

So as to bring it further out.

Considering you’re predisposed

To anything that’s positive

Unless your mind’s already closed

Except to what is negative.

Be that as may be some folks say

It proves that evolution’s so

Though should it go the other way

(To devolution it would go.)

Considering the missing link

It’s very possible the ape

Who wanted like a man to think

Could alter his genetic shape

To find himself the more fit for

A place on evolution’s scale

So human-like he could be more

Without a monkey’s silly tail.

I think that would be peachy keen

But how to think himself a man

(Without the man around, I mean)

I don’t see how a monkey can

Imagine what he’d want to be

Without his seeing that before,

For then it all seems moot to me:

With nothing to look forward for;

If evolution started from

The bottom, so as to ascend,

Wherever he was coming from

A man would have had to descend,

So evolution doesn’t solve

The very question that it begs:

Why would a monkey then evolve

And stand up on his own hind legs?

But for a likeness of the one

Whom he attempts to emulate,

So nothing could in fact be done

To change his former apish state;

So that to turn the simian

To that which simians are not

A monkey needs a mind like man

To want to have what men have got.