Vials of sacred births <br />By choice less compulsion <br />Shattered at earth darkest harbor, <br />The male and female cargo ejected at nature’s will. <br />Nine branches abide in one face of a lonesome vine <br />Some are scorched as if passed through nature’s kiln <br />Others are wrenched as saplings, their nodes blood-dried <br />Yet others seek nutrients for witting leaves, <br />Flourishing branches excised by unseen hands <br />Breathe the air of foreign climes as <br />Gnarled hands of malice and envy <br />Tattoo native branches with ugly incision <br />Bleeding sap from gaunt members <br />Now cracked, hacked and sallow.<br /><br />macaulay akinbami<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/untitled-262/
