Osei Zion

OUR GENES ONCE LIVED

We couldn\'t bite our teeth

At their sight, we drew skulls on our sheet

And looked through our sheath

Suddenly, we started to lose nerves

 

Dark darkness frowned on our genes in broad daylight

The base of our trait was blaming no one

Who was to be blamed? DNA or RNA?

Biology lecturer buried his head in the sand

 

In heredity was the reason found

Our eyes and blood rejected mutation to hound

Our genome showered with tears of blood

Hatred fired his ballistae on our variant

\'Memory can be a graveyard\'

 

Our genome was deemed \'undesirable\'

\'Master race\' was the abled

Celebration rituals popped up in bars in the \'Night of Broken Glass\'

The \'burnt offering\' was accepted and more gas was

 

Finally, there was the \'Final Solution\'

Tutsi, Darfur, Holocaust, Cambodia, ..., the images

Whether genome or exon, DNA or RNA

We are coequal

Justice for all genomes.