To My Mitochondria
I remember painstaking lines and
careful colouring-in
punctuated by leaning back
in blissful satisfaction to
admire the result.
I learned their biochemistry
and their physiology
gazed at slides
from microtomes.
I once knew such a lot of things
and now that knowledge
is long gone.
All I can recall from then -
diagrams in felt-tipped pen.
