Paternal Taste

How does it taste to have a father— sweet, tasteless, bitter or sour? Somebody to tell me in an hour, before I can go any farther. How does it taste to have a father— joyful, ordinary, sorrowful or painful? Let me know lest my efforts go wasteful before I can go any farther. How does it taste to have a father— lovely, empty, rejected or despised? I request an answer undisguised before I can go any farther. How does it taste to have a father— warm, cool, cold or hot? Who’ll tell me amongst the lot before I can go any farther? How does it taste to have a father? Why not tell me, fate, why you came so fast to take mine and did not let him last before I can go any farther.