A waking night
shakes
my laden mind
with sluggish slumber;
reaps
day's fruit-suffusion.
Ugochi, unripe,
shames
slumber's skill;
dangles defiant
from my branch.
A sundering ripeness
plucks
her tenacious tenure;
wrenches
fruit from branch bowed
with wide-eyed slumber.
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