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The Web Poetry Corner - Clarius Ugwuoha - YOU MUST STAND UP!

YOU MUST STAND UP!

by

Clarius Ugwuoha

Why?
Why d'you lie crouched
Others up and about
Your eyes yet to attune
To the fevered approach of dawn?

Get up! rise up!
Wipe your eyes clear
Of this poisonous sleep
The aging day throbs
With the scattered enfilade of drums!

Why
Why d'you have to lie like a log
Numb to the bone while others sweat
The harvest field is bare
And the barn stacked full with yams
While the fireside dimly gleams
With the dying embers of the hearth

Getup! it's not too late
Get up it's yet another day
Brother you must get up before the earliest cock
You must not lie down dead
To the fevered approach of dawn!

NEXT?
Why don't you look at Cherry Blossom and Roses
by: Joyce Hemsley
from: Sunderland, England, UK

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