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Five hundred years
Twenty generations
Five hundred twenty four thousand
Two hundred and eighty eight
Daughters
Blood as the only testimony
Birth as our inheritance
Our origins obscured
Entangled in a patrilineage
Names our fathers' mothers' borrowed
A tenuous affiliation
The endorsement of a contract
To perpetuate a bloodline
Our own names not our own
Our membership concealed
But time cannot extinguish
The immortal truth
That we are born of our mothers.
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Written on 2010-04-18 at 03:29
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Root
Five hundred years
Twenty generations
Five hundred twenty four thousand
Two hundred and eighty eight
Daughters
Blood as the only testimony
Birth as our inheritance
Our origins obscured
Entangled in a patrilineage
Names our fathers' mothers' borrowed
A tenuous affiliation
The endorsement of a contract
To perpetuate a bloodline
Our own names not our own
Our membership concealed
But time cannot extinguish
The immortal truth
That we are born of our mothers.
Words by CPom
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Written on 2010-04-18 at 03:29
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