Male parental hierarchy.

My parents are two, grandparents four

And great grandparents, eight and so on.

I am known by my father, his father,

And his father and so on by male side.

My mother, her mother and father, their

Mother and father and so on are ignored.

My fathers’ mother and grandfather’s

Mother and so on go to oblivion.

I am known by my father, his father

And his father and so on as a family.

All women from whom I have drawn

Their genes have been shut out.

Parental hierarchy is represented

By male, women dislodged at every stage.

25.08.2009