SAVE ME A PLACE

Save a place for me Grandma

Please save a place for me

I do not know what country or town awaits

After my eyes close and my breathe seizes

Save a place for me Grandma

There may be a long cue which might require one knowing another

If the current bribing here is anything to go by

I remember your saying “Aka ohuri pr3ko na maduru nhanua”, I think I understand now

So save a place for me

For no matter how dense the poverty and pain,

Getting shoulders to lie on will be pleasing

So save a place for me

Save a place for me

And make it sitting free

To make it the coolest

For I do not know the heat of the travel

Save a place for me at the world beyond life

Grandma, please save a seat for me

For I know you’re the only one who can

And will help me rest after what seems to be a long journey.

(The Akan version means “it is left with a few jumps for me to reach the land of my ancestors”)

By amoafowaa