Word of the day - XANTIPPE
Meaning - an ill-tempered woman
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She was a dangerous woman
Silent mostly
And she smiled through it all.
Her smile, that of a fox
cunningly beautiful.
Some days
she treated me as her king
and some days
she rubbed her anger on me.
Her moods fluctuated
like seasons.
She bounced through
her behaviour.
She baked cookies
and herself ate chillies.
She wore rainbow colours
but said dark nothings.
Last month
she whispered in my ear
about babies
and wedding.
And yesterday
when I bent down
and asked her to marry me
she slapped me in the face.
Her moods still affect me
and they shouldn’t.
Her ill temper
should not be my business now.