Colin has got an ailment,

It is starting to get his goat

So he goes and tells the doctor

He has a lump in his throat.

 

Referred to the hospital,

A camera is shoved up his nose.

Nothing untoward is found

While his discomfort just grows.

 

Prescribed a course of tablets,

A new appointment to follow,

An x-ray film is taken

With a barium swallow.

 

Slight improvement, weeks pass by

Without a single word,

Finally a letter arrives,

Now a diagnosis heard.

 

Globus pharyngis it is,

We never heard of this before

So I google it online,

And now I learn the score.

 

Globus pharyngis just means

And this might sound remote,

It simply is the feeling that

You have a lump in your throat!