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.
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Author:
Osei Zion (Pseudonym) (
Offline) - Published: April 9th, 2022 05:45
- Comment from author about the poem: In commemoration of the 1994 genocide against Tutsi in Rwanda.
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Comments1
well penned poet &
splendid closing lines
so sad to see history repeating itself as if past tragedies were meaningless
Dahlia
Thanks Poet
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