Seek

The Stamp

At conception, onto my zygote lays etched

A stamp, engraved, carved, inscribed

By genes, but from the blind, masked

Irreversible ‘n fated

Permanent ‘n forged

Diverse but unique

Irrevocable ‘n gorged

With love, soaked

From Nature’s largess

Bountiful, limitless

But zombies stay thankless

 

Genomes forge, with diversity creatures teem

Skin, noses, lips, hair, ears, eyes, spleen

Enticing, fixed, then repulsed, decried

By human gods, haughty, cruel, self-styled

Self-inventors, fellow beings they defile

Claiming glory, for acts of nature

Chastising cores, debasing states of being

Insanely lynching

Sadistically butchering

The old or budding

By millions perishing

Wantonly enslaving

For traits deemed wrongdoing

Save their own, of favors deserving

 

Recreating gods, shifting cores --- commoners to kings

To each, a private god for pieties of whims

Kneeling, howling, praying, hate bursting seams

Victims nor assailants, their traits won’t yield

Yet one tortures, the other maimed

Genes beget myriad tin gods with license

Reinventing makers, with rules ‘n violence

Decreeing freedoms, ruined by tenets

Bowing to gods, kneeling to self, prides inflate

Egos explode as essences wither, fellows to hate

Genomes create, infinitely creative beings

Loathing countless traits ordained by genes

Just like those molding haters’ traits

 

Traits immutable, now made indictable

But for victims, not the culpable

Both impotent in altering lifelong traits

Yet the haughty will crush

As their victims suffocate

Yet still, transcendence is on hand

Using hearts as soldiers

Fighting hate with love ‘n esteem

 Accepting fixed features

Resist urges to loathe

Rewarding self with love

 

© Alwi Shatry, All Rights Reserved, January 8th 2020