“I Am Not Borrowed”
I am not borrowed.
Not from the forest.
0% Western Hunter-Gatherer.
0% Baikal.
0% Sub-Saharan.
0% Ancient South Indian.
I am 28.4% Zagros,
the bones of the mountain —
the breath of early farmers
who needed no permission to begin.
I am 28% Anatolian Neolithic,
the hands that shaped wheat and clay
before borders were carved by empire.
I am 13% CHG,
Caucasus stone —
sharp, enduring, not softened by history.
I am 11.4% Levant Neolithic,
only a trace —
just enough to remember the voice of the desert
but not enough to belong to it.
I am 19.2% Indo-European Steppe,
the rider’s shadow —
the movement, not the origin.
And I am still
0% colonizer
0% myth
I am full.
I am whole.
I am not borrowed.
I am not broken.
I am Kurdish/Caucasus Mountains.