What Is Encoded

Prowess or virility?
To thousands upon thousands of years
Recorded history,
To the earliest stumblings of humankind's most
Awkward fumblings,
Are next placed, shinier, more radiant objects
A soft palm, and fruits that by their conception
Are untasted to those within frustration
Fail in definition
A shapeshifting election - unfair game,
Not a sport of equals, but species apart
In truth, the utterly unsame -
The 'other kind'
From domestic safety, torn, all unchallenged
Knights, who have failed, until now, in gallantry
To lance and spear the cumbersome,
Malleable in construction - from warm bread
And nucleaic notions of nubility or bloodline,
Unfathomable reaches into the depth of what,
Or who,
Is encoded