The defining force

Wow! What an insight you have into the human condition, and how well you have placed these thoughts into a poem! I am impressed!
Yes, our body may recycle itself every 7 years, until its final death, but our soul does indeed live on forever.
You have penned a very inspirational poem here Ingrid. I love it!

Hmm. this really makes me think. what does make us who we are? at least i am glad that nobody can take it away.
thanks for sharing
~Ben

Some very interesting philosophical questions raised here. I wonder if we are all an ongoing 'work in progress'?
I've enjoyed the philosophical questions asked in some of your recent poems, very refreshing.

Ingrid,

I like this lesson in both biology and religion.
Haiku inspired by you!

In just seven years
Every cell replenished
Homo sapiens

Refreshed of body
But what of ones mind and soul
God is our anchor

M.Moran

Very meaningfull and deep write...

In the course of every seven years
all cells in our body are replaced.

Are we still the same person afterwards?
^^
its not the exterior features that define a person...its our inside... out heart... our soul... but how many people actually look inside a person!!

because it is the soul
that steers the body.
Both elusive,

but definably "you"

^^
definately... beautifully penned...