she was

playfully smart

knowing when to be dumb

and when to smile, revealing who

she was


he was

a cowardly

bully, even his friends

didn’t care for him very much

either


and so

she tried to tame

him, not understanding

that deep down, he could not change who

he was

Shared with dVerse MTB – cinquain and based on a situation between a couple of my students