TADPOLES IN GROOMING

Why are men in high places
Hoarding tadpoles in their embraces
While grown frogs are in their faces
…hoping to get in their graces?

II
Why are ripe fruits hanging
And respectable hands go a-throwing
Huge stones for the unripe’s falling?
When the ripen will go a-rotting?

III
It is a horrid attitude so rude
That handcuffs must go a-chasing
It is a happening so crude
That real hearts must go a-negating
It is a hunting of many an offending dude
That the Popo must go a-arresting

IV
For how do you leave the ready to rot
And hunt the babies in cots
Taking your youngs’ future slots
To rob them of their treasures’ lot?

V
Even the creator must send some punishing
Raining on them thievery suffering
Oh our maker must do some caning
Hitting their rods into their falling
Shiee, our Almighty must do some eliminating
Killing the waist snakes they go a-abusing
For each life-line has an order
And none must cross that awkward boader
Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © April 13, 2026.