Call grandma from beyond
Call daddy from above
Call all the ancestors who reign
To help fix my taste-buds
II
At first it tasted light soup
And rejected it, I blamed the cook
Then it tasted banku and okro
It repelled it, and again the cook suffered
Many a cook suffered blame
Then I tried raw sugar
Still, this taste bud rejected it
Sending signals of its sourness
The doctors say they see nothing.
Is a rebelling tongue a normal trend?
III
Please let the seers be at work
To keep this tongue in check
And send it to apologise
To all the good cooks trashed
Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
