Hypertension Begets A Stroke Poem by John Sensele

Hypertension heightens strain on arteries, veins and capillaries
Stressing their walls and damaging organs
Until hypertension vagaries
Working worse than guns

Starve brain cells
Which if combined with a rupture near or inside the brain
Rings stroke bells
That in a destructive train

Impairs the central nervous system
Paralysing metabolic functions
Regardless of the name
Victims place on nervous junctions

Of affected parts of the human body
Damages in part or in full
Bodily functions in a tragedy
For which there may not exist a therapeutic tool.