whiff of a wish

Not woman enough,

Yet she found nerve

Enough to express

A grand sudden

Sense of womanhood

Polite enough not

For “shut up”

Instead frozen silence

And destiny relaxes

A puddle, a splash

An apology

And then

A query

Not to a woman

But as one would

To a toddler girl

“Did you get dirty?”

 to be woman enough

was not her fancy anymore.