A CARPET OF GENES
Life is expensive, like a Persian
rug of several million knots
trodden upon by whoever comes.
Colourful, unique, designed by
a pair of diligent weavers.
Your family tree has always been
like a graduation photo book.
But when you give it a thought, all those
branches of ancestors, leafing
like genes, have ended in you...
A horrible thing.
A heritage you can’t
give up.
Your children inherit it too,
and it bothers you a lot
to see your own flaws in them.
You’re a rug made of a million genes,
whose knots will be undone
by the grandsons of your own
great-grandsons.