from far it appears orange.
its lips taste sweetly sour.
and though its truth tastes
foreign to your tongue,
you preserve it
believing that
Lemons
taste better
when
Lemonade.
Author of “fly in a beehive”, winner of Poetry in Mcgregor 2017, published in Tendai Mwanaka’s Best New African Poets 2016/2017 and recently published in the February volume 3 issue of Better Than Starbucks