23AndMe
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The story in my genome, more than just Filipino A history of people's belief is what I seek, so Let me spit in this vial, extract nucleic acids Illumina microarray unraveling the past with A double helix repeated ATCG sequence Meaning of a people's experience revealed in Inherited melanocytes to express the melanin Ancestors of the Atayal Taiwanese residents Then wayfinding spread through all of Oceania Traced by maternal haplogroups and mitochondria SNPs exons introns tell the story of the tropical Aeta indigenous animistic followers Black curly haired Australo-melanesians Beliefs in the spirits and one supreme being Historians perceive them as if they were heathens But they maintained peace with a different set of beliefs and the rice terraces north of the port town in Manila The home of the ancestral lineage of the Kalinga The tribes of cordillera region and Sierra Madre Original set claiming, Ifugao Banaue Head-hunting vengeful, until a pact was written up The oceanic version of gangbanging crips and bloods In the south,the land of promise island of Mindanao Hindus and animists but Muslims stayed in power Sultanates on the coast with the Lumad inland Isolated in the mountain regions with their kinsman Meanwhile Manila had the trade with China Hawking wares such gold, silk, copper and iron Chieftains from Borneo, Datus and Rajahs My brown forefathers worshiping the god Bathala Taga ilog the River People spoke Tagalog How did a culture so rich not last for tomorrow Enter the conquistador, colonizer armadas Took over the tropical, Archipelago for España Part of the Manila Galleon, Acapulco to Philippines That's how I got Native American in my genes Not to mention Iberia, touch of Italian too A kalinga queen probably raped by a Spanish dude But that gave me a lighter complexion and tall stature My pointed nose and long lashes, eyes not slanted A rapists actions led to disdain for my accent How a culture and language to this day can remain absent How diversity devolves into a blank canvas How a people can vanish into the past tense Don't even have a surname, nope, that never lasted Monikers picked out of catalogs for the purpose of taxes You don't look like a Rivera, no I don't speak spanish No bloodline or race nor do I know my own language Went from Baybayin and Sanskrit to taglish Went from diwatas and dwendes to burning plastic Gabriella and Rizal tried their best to defend me But the outcome was Marcos, GMA and Duterte Further diluted proof and truth with Americana An amalgam of Westernized culture and Espana And I'm sorry that I appropriate black culture but Colonizers gave me a complex that took my mother tongue Brownness is a sin, Eskinol whiten skin Take away your people's kindred spirit, your life within Colorism taught me avoid the sun, but Apo-laki Was the god of the sun, god of Eskrima Kali Mayari, moon goddess, Tala star goddess A matriarchal society that somehow was forgotten And even my own people don't know what to call me Whatever happened to the color kayumanggi 23AndMe traced back to all these lost genes Whatever happened to the color kayumanggi 23andMe doesn't even know what to call me Whatever happened to the color kayumanggi
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