Funny you should ask– deoxyribonucleic acid is the basic building block of life, holding the torch in my own little world. Some people are not carrying the torch. “In the presence” may not be the place for you. "Daughtered out" what it means is– you cannot find a descendant of a female ancestor. Don’t believe the hype, because there isn't any to find. There was a girl (absorbed) under my care, but held against her will– until I had become the water under the boat and saw her looking up.
Created from a Google search result: ‘Torch DNA.’ First appeared in the Found Poetry Review’s “PoMoSco,” a collective April 2015 National Poetry Month challenge.